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In reply to the discussion: A sleeping giant has been awakened [View all]hifiguy
(33,688 posts)During the Raygun years they subtly sowed fear, religious intolerance and racism.
The Newt era added fairly open hatred and the real beginnings of a genuinely paranoid mindset.
In the last 10-12 years they tripled down on fear, intolerance and openly embraced flat-out bigotry, morphing entirely into a party of theocratic, xenophobic lunatics that live in the Twilight World of Total Paranoia. They hate and fear everyone and everything that is not them.
This has all happened with the active backing of the 1%ers who have always been the real power in the Repig party. The moderates are gone - they have all been purged with Stalinesque efficiency, or have run into the night. There is no place for the Repigs to go. The paranoid bigots and the religulously insane will never, ever change. As they die off over the next couple of decades there simply won't be enough young people who take the bait. The Republican Party is in an irreversible death spiral. Which is a damned good thing. Perhaps a responsible center-right party can emerge from the smoldering wreckage.