re: #93 GOPHostage#25698724

Why do you assume that faction will truly control the narrative? What they merely claim for themselves is hardly worth paying attention to. Like McCarthyism these Tea Party aberrations come and then they go. Conservative thought and theory is a phenomenon of longer history and more relevance than the GOP.

There are people out there who believe that the Nazis were liberals because Limbaugh, Goldberg and the rest have told them so. They conflate Nazis, Communists, Socialists and consider them all interchangeable left-wing ideas.

Also, these days McCarthy is seen as a hero on the right. So are the Birchers. Saying that these groups are aberrations is denying the fact that those are the people in charge in the GOP and in movement conservatism. These ideas have taken root and they’re not going away anytime soon.