He's not the first to say so

 

Former Speaker of the House John Boehner has a new book out, and he apparently isn't afraid to name names and tell it like it is (and how it was).  I didn't like Boehner when he was in charge very much, and he missed some opportunities to do things the right way (a couple of time bailing out at the last minute on good deals), but compared to the people leading the Repughlican party now, he was an angel.

This is a link to the Washington Post article about the book:

In new book, John Boehner says today’s GOP is unrecognizable to traditional conservatives and dishes on his time in politics

Quotes from the article about what he writes in the book:

One:  

"He draws a direct line from anti-establishment lawmakers he dealt with last decade to Republicans in Congress who supported Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election: “The legislative terrorism that I’d witnessed as speaker had now encouraged actual terrorism.”  "

Two:

“I know what we all said at the time: Bill Clinton was impeached for lying under oath. In my view, Republicans impeached him for one reason and one reason only . . . Tom DeLay believed that impeaching Clinton would win us all these House seats, would be a big win politically, and he convinced enough of the membership and the GOP base that this was true.” 

Boehner acknowledges that he supported the move at the time, but in retrospect doesn’t think Clinton’s behavior rose to impeachment charges. “Clinton probably did commit perjury. That’s not a good thing. But lying about an affair to save yourself from embarrassment isn’t the same as lying about an issue of national security,” Boehner writes."

Three:

" Boehner says he was already living in “Crazytown,” and “when I took the Speaker’s gavel in 2011, two years into the Obama presidency, I became its mayor. Crazytown was populated by jackasses, and media hounds, and some normal citizens as baffled as I was about how we got trapped inside the city walls. Every second of every day since Barack Obama became president I was fighting one bats — t idea after another.” "

Telling the truth about the horror that is the current "Republican" party.  What a concept.