Give up, tahoma, "resistance is futile" when dealing with republicans.  They've proven, over and over for more than century, that they just don't stand for anything other than selfish narcissism and that makes them pretty slippery and almost impossible to pin down on any topic because they can and will just obfuscate and prevaricate their way out.

Over the years that we've been dealing with the Fox/Trump phenomenon, psychiatric science has been amazingly consistent in warning us about trying to interact with these predatory parasites.  Now that republicans have overwhelmingly been infected by selfish narcissism as really their only consistent and unifying "principle," psychiatric scientists have been warning us that we really can't interact with republican narcissists, at least not productively.  The concensus in psychiatric science is that anything we might try to do to interact with narcissists in any "normal" way simply provides them with an opening to engage us, use us as hosts, and bleed us out.

That's just what selfish narcissistic parasites do, either physically, psychologically, or politically.  They don't care how they do it; it's just what they do.  Just look at and think about what the current administration and the GOP has done over the last few years.  They got their parasitic attachment hooks into the country, vomited their rhetorical digestive juices onto the airwaves, applied their sucking mouth parts and, voila, we've seen bribery, even of foreign governments; money laundering, even to the detriment of a local savings and loan operation intended to support military veterans; sweetheart contracts, both foreign and domestic; sweetheart appointments, even of ambassadors who were then used to request bribes from our allies; violations of the Hatch Act and emoluments clause; and more, far more.

Essentially, the concensus among psychiatric scientists is that anything you might try to do to interact with narcissists, in this case republicans, is almost guaranteed to cost you far more than it yields, far more than it's worth.  Psychiatric scientists have been trying to tell us to just run.  "Run, you fools, run."  That's the best advice they've been able to give us because the only reliable option for dealing with narcissists is to just cut your losses and get away from them as quickly as possible.

So, at this point, our only reliable recourse seems to be to not waste time and effort trying to discuss anything with republicans, which just provides them with an opening for further infection, but to vote them, all of them, out in the next election.  Seriously, just look at who we've been trying to "reason" with.  We've got, again, Greg Gianforte and Steve Daines in the north, Cory Gardner and Ken Buck in the middle, and Lindsey Graham and Ron DeSantis in the south.  These aren't people who can be "reasoned" with; they're psychologically "abnormal" for crying out loud.  We have to face the facts and get past our codependent urge to try to redeem the irredeemable and save the damned.  Our country and our democracy are being destroyed while we dither.  We have to just vote and get them the hell out!  It's not personal; it's science.

I applaud PEER's effort via a lawsuit to bring public attention to the fact that Everson is unqualified to be any kind of director of the NPS. She has no experience with park management, resource management, or any of the multitude of issues that park staff face every day, from law enforcement, resource management, cleaning bathroooms, search and rescue and on and one. She is experienced in being a yes-person to the Secretary of the DOI, who is in turn a yes-person for the White House.  No one in the White House has any more of a clue about NPS issues and management than Everson or the Secretary. If this behavior of putting inexerienced and unqualified people in charge of public lands, irreversible damage to those lands and resources will occur.