"We followed the most radical voices in the party and the movement, and they
led us to abject and irreversible defeat.

There were leaders who knew better, who would have liked to deal. But they
were trapped. Conservative talkers on Fox and talk radio had whipped the
Republican voting base into such a frenzy that deal-making was rendered
impossible. How do you negotiate with somebody who wants to murder your
grandmother? Or – more exactly – with somebody whom your voters have been
persuaded to believe wants to murder their grandmother?"

heh heh.

The Republicans really do sound like loonys in the news now. People now take
Conservative = redneck crazies . I remember when it used to represent an
intelligentsia with legitimate and measured views.

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