“Lie” isn’t an adequate word for what Republicans say. We need a new term; I propose anti-truth, as in, “There are lies, damned lies, and Republican anti-truths.”
Like matter and anti-matter, Republicans and the truth just can’t occupy the same space. What they say goes all the way through and past “untrue” into the realm of turning reality inside out, tying a knot in it, and yanking hard.
For any grammatically correct sentence you can say 1 of 4 things, that it is true, that it is false, that you don’t know if it is true or false, or that it is nonsense. The republicans have definitely gone beyond untrue and into the realm of nonsense.