As GOP candidates call for end to birthright citizenship, it’s worth remembering the 1996 GOP platform did so too: pic.twitter.com/k9wF1pEz3s

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) August 19, 2015

Reminder: The GOP has been this extreme for a long time, but now that the candidates are pushing this in the open, the extremism is spilling over into even more heated rhetoric.