When members of the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 asked Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) to meet with them, they probably shouldve known that he wouldnt comply with their request. The Republican answered their perfectly legitimate ask with a four-page letter detailing his quibbles with the committee, including a declaration that the request violates core Constitutional principles .

When did congressional hearings become unconstitutional? It must have been after Republicans hauled then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in for a 12-hour probe over the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012.

Jordan is just one of the countless members of the GOP who will meet facts with absurdity without a second thought. Theres Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who tweeted an anti-Semitic trope claiming upscale liberals who control the media believe that Jan. 6 is another 9/11, despite the fact that on the day of the Capitol riot, he also condemned the attackers .

We cant forget Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who touted the perfect solution to the pandemic: God. Why do we assume that the bodys natural immune system isnt the marvel that it is? he asked on a conservative radio show earlier this month. Why do we think that we can create something better than God in terms of combating disease?

Because of statements like these, we know that political discourse has fully entered the theater of the absurd. There is no truth anymore because we can no longer trust one of our two major parties to stay moored to reality. Instead, we have a GOP that never hesitates to lie, engages in wild conspiracy theories, and makes even the biggest hypocrites look like saints.

Where does this leave Democrats who are still concerned with the norms that used to dictate the government?

Its time for Democrats to stop mourning the death of norms and move to the acceptance phase norms are dead, and you cant reach across the aisle to someone who is not bound by reality.