an increasingly radicalized Republican Party is the "overriding culprit

[EleanorR]

In the article, published in the July/August issue of Foreign Affairs, political science professor Paul Pierson and Jacob Hacker, a professor at Yale University, draw on years of research to write that an increasingly radicalized Republican Party is the “overriding culprit behind the failure of the U.S. political system.”

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President Donald Trump is both a symptom of this mutation and an accelerant of long-simmering changes in the party, Pierson said.

“It goes back to Newt Gingrich and the 1994 election, which rhetorically was built around the idea that the system is so corrupt that we have to tear it down,” Pierson said. “And over the years, there are a lot of things like this that are building, but obviously it takes a big leap in intensity with the election of Trump.”

Trump has launched attacks on the press, the courts, law enforcement and political opponents all “with virtually no pushback or even complaints from within” the Republican Party, Pierson and Hacker wrote, adding that these attacks aren’t an entirely new development but “a hastening of its march down an alarming path.”

Pierson said he and Hacker also examined the Democratic Party over the same period, and found that it had not shifted as dramatically to the left as the Republican Party had to the right, although both are closely watching the current Democratic primary.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/06/28/why-is-americas-government-broken-a-new-paper-asks/

The republican party should always be referred to as The Radical Right.

[DBoon]

1. what do you call violent xenophobic nationalist authoritarians?

The republican party is the re-awakening of fascism

[empedocles]

2. Barry Goldwater, old AuH20, offered raw, red meat, with his, 'Let's take the

Government back from the NAACP campaign rally speeches. The response of the South led to Nixon's infamous, coded winning '68 'Southern Strategy'. ReaganHood, won 'con primaries, and then boosted strongly by Nixon's off the gold standard 14% mortgages very bad economy, solidified the newer race/corruption based Republican Party. The Bushes, inherited the dividends so to speak.

trump simply played the race card harder than ever before, 'making a difference' to win his primaries.

[safeinOhio]

3. When they say we have moved too far left,

remind them that today’s Publicans now think Regain was a Commie.