current republican party

A common trait that seems to come from the current Republican leaders:

If you disagree with them stating your opinion, reasons, logic, and research, they resort to replying with personal attacks, and smears and sneers, all this from people who don't want to or can't debate the issues.

That may be how their party has disintigrated into something quite different from the party to which I used to belong. They digress with the hate attacks if you DARE disagree with them, as though that makes their argument.