America is paralyzed until something is done about the Trump "problem".

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10. I'm 45, I've seen American politics change in my life time

I remember as a kid listening to adults talk politics in the 70s and 80s. I've always been a natural liberal in a conservative family on my father's side, so I didn't agree or understand their arguments much, but it was intelligent talk. Also it was rational adults debating issues rationally and respectfully.

Then Newt Gingrich showed up in 1994 and changed everything.

Not only did the Republican party and the Conservative movement take a hard right turn, it also got mean and clannish. They've been this way ever since. Then W came along, bringing with him a willful ignorance and under him the party actually purged what remained of its intelligentsia. Suddenly George Will, who is not dumb, and his ilk had no home. And they're still outside looking in today.

Its astounding. Republicans are now the party of mean, stupid people and nothing else.