re: #18 moderatelyradicalliberal
Don’t kid yourself. The loons have been there since the 1960s when you picked up the dixiecrats, they have only now reached critical mass while you were trying to pretend they didn’t exist and weren’t as awful as they really were.
I only came into GOP ranks after 9/11, I was apolitical prior to then. But you’re right, I fooled myself for years, trying to convince myself (with limited success) that the loons were a fringe, that nobody really listened to them.
Then Obama got elected and no amount of self-delusion could make the loons any less visible.