re: #107 palomino

Depends on how you define the term mainstream.

Huckabee was a Governor and won 8 state primaries in 2008. Cruz won a US Senate seat in a landslide in the nation’s second most populous state. (That’s hardly fringe territory.)

Throw in former Sen. Santorum, former Gov. Perry and current Gov. Jindal, all of whom also have strong theocratic tendencies, and you’ve got one-third of the giant gop field made up of wanna be Clerics-in-Chief.

Maybe this hyper-religiosity isn’t mainstream gop thought to you. But it’s clearly mainstream gop thought in the south (and some of the midwest), the places which happen to be gop strongholds. So there’s a very strong case to be made that this is indeed mainstream gop thinking today. The gop of 2015 is much different than the gop of 1965.

I’ll refer to my original claim: I don’t see any of that garbage here; I’ll be much more worried if and when that does happen.

Don’t get me wrong; the fact that this hyper-religiosity is even tolerated, much less successful, in the Republican tent is troubling, to say the least. But it’s a far cry from a civil war.