re: #76 lawhawk

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Reminder: The GOP has been this extreme for a long time, but now that the candidates are pushing this in the open, the extremism is spilling over into even more heated rhetoric.

The ideologues have long written the platform, but the candidates were always working the largest constituencies possible, and thus didn’t always do what the ideologues proposed.

Today we see that after 20 years the “grassroots” have been so programmed by decades of the ideological grandstanding that they now expect the candidates to toe the line.

Meanwhile, the ideologues are gearing up for their next round of purification campaigns. The next iteration of their beliefs will be even more extreme.