Rather than littering the fringe, right wing lunatics have become the core of the Republican Party... and like the rest of the story of the destruction of American democracy and the hobbling of the once-economically-vibrant American working class... it all began with Reagan. After Reagan, the Republican Party fell into the hands of the religious right and antigovernment fundamentalists. A once liberal party shrank into something at or beyond the edges of liberalism. In the decades after 1980, the share of American voters calling themselves Republican halved. A coin-toss win of the presidency in 2000 and the gerrymandering of congressional districts disguised large and growing Republican weaknesses. Nationally at any rate, Republicans were becoming a minority party. They were again becoming a stupid party in the sense that Mill and Keynes had meant when calling British Conservatives stupid: a party that turned its face from the facts and refused to recognize change.
Posted on: Mon, 26 May 2014 20:00:01 +0000
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