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Originally Posted by roachboy
and they must be desperate because they're letting in the fringes, allowing them to become the public face of contemporary conservatism.
once they did that, then for the right the Goal became: generate an impression of having Stopped Something.
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Well, that's been the game they've been playing since they adopted the evangelical movement as the moral core of the party. It won big for them in election cycles starting about 1994 and decisively ending in 2006, but those guys are finally seeing the light--that their socially conservative politics have been coopted and corrupted, and now they're done.
The reaction from the Republican party seems to be to go even further out the fringe, to the "new base" that they can't possibly lose. It's bizarre, because it's a transparently losing strategy. They're now the party of whiners, liars, and conspiracy theorists. I don't get why they're doing this, but there it is.