re: #479 iossarian

I’m beginning to think that a lot of Republicans have backed themselves into a philosophical corner. So much of their platform is now logically inconsistent, the only way they can keep any kind of coherence is to basically blame everything on evil liberals (either that, or abandon the whole edifice, which I can absolutely appreciate requires immense intellectual courage).

That’s been true since the Clinton years. It just took a while for everyone else to catch on, because the only folks who were openly pointing that out were liberals, which gave the GOP cover.

It took the election of a black man to the White House for everyone else to start noticing the cognitive dissonance that’s been driving the Republican party for a good while now.