re: #122 Fozzie Bear

Nobody is. This is based on dozens of polls, a couple of electoral cycles, and large assortment of other events that were impossible to miss, unless you get all your news from Fox and Rush.

The majority of the GOP electorate is, at the moment, crazy. That’s why crazy people keep winning elections. They aren’t stealing the elections, and they aren’t being deceived into voting for people that pretend to be sane and then later turn out to not be. This is a national movement of nutbags who have taken over (i.e., are more than half of) the GOP.

Of course, it’s not like this is really “new”, per se, the GOP has always been massively racist, it’s just that the far right thinks it’s safe to openly speak their minds now. For the few decades following the civil rights movement, it was understood that you had to keep that kind of thing quiet, speak in coded language, and generally avoid taking off the mask all the way. Those days are over, and the darkness that never really went away is visible again.

I’d be careful in saying things like “the GOP has always been massively racist”, since that’s not really true. Certainly, it has taken on a lot of the racists in the last few decades, but for a long time before the civil rights era, it was the Democratic Party that was full of the most hardcore racists.