Just how stupid is the GOP?

EPA Administrator Pruitt is receiving so many death threats that his security costs have ballooned:

Due to the enormous amount of death threats thrown at EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, the government has amped up his security. Congress has asked if this is a waste of money, but it seems a legit concern.

That's not why the GOP is stupid, it's an example of how much of the Left has turned into fascists.  Here's what's stupid:

Last month, former EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman implied that Pruitt is to blame for the these threats:

Whitman criticized Pruitt’s request for an expensive security detail while he also proposes deep cuts to the agency’s budget. 

“If he has had enough serious death threats, then he shouldn’t have proposed the deep cuts to the EPA budget,” she said in an interview. “What worries me is if these people are being used for protecting him, they are not cracking down on environmental crimes being committed by companies.”

Whitman is a Republican, serving as EPA Administrator under George W. Bush.  The GOP is so anti-Trump that even scaling back the EPA's Obama era massive overreach must be opposed, because Never Trump.  They are so anti-Trump that they don't care that left wing Brown Shirts are out for Pruitt's blood.  They'd rather see the security money go to implementing Obama's EPA overreach, because Never Trump.

The Re-Elect Trump 2020 Campaign thanks them, as another 50,000 GOP voters prepare to vote against the GOP Establishment next year.

I am really quite flabbergasted how so many people learned nothing from last year's elections.  They tried this sort of nonsense over an over then, certain that "this time it will work for sure".  And here they are doing it again.  But sure - this time it's bound to work ...

They have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.  This is in great contrast with GOP voters, who have learned a lot but have forgotten nothing.  This strikes me as extremely unwise of the GOP Establishment.