Republican Decency Is Extinct. R.I.P.
Former Utah Senator Bob Bennett (R), THE first major casualty of the 2010 Tea Party movement, passed away on May 4, 2016. Bennett was primaried in 2010 and ultimately lost his seat to super-villain, racist and fiscally irresponsible Senator Mike Lee. Because he occasionally acted reasonably and responsibly by compromising, he was kicked out of the modern-day Republican Party.
Suffering from complications from pancreatic cancer, in his final hours, Bennett attempted to make amends with the victims of Trump's awful rhetoric: Muslims. He sought out a few followers of Islam, and assured them that Trump doesn't represent the entirety of the GOP. The Daily Beast explains:
Bob Bennett spent his last days letting Muslims know how sorry he was that an Islamophobe had become his party’s all-but-certain nominee.
His concern for Muslims was not the only issue he raised in his last days: to his brother-in-law, he spoke urgently on plans for low-income housing in Salt Lake city; to his son Jim, he mentioned a land management plan to mitigate the effects of drought.