re: #36 Talking Point Detective

Don’t know if this has been posted previously, but this is a must-see chart that really concretizes the extremism of the Republican Party (I found it linked originally at Sam Wang’s blog - click to embiggen):

[Link: xkcd.com…]

Far right is larger than right. Not shocking unfortunately. It’s not even about moderates being replaced by rightists really. It’s about unhinged replacing those with some sanity. Good example of that is Lugar who could easily be called a conservative and a member of the right being primaried out by a far rightist.