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Blue_true

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6. I don't think it will end.

Reply to Xipe Totec (Reply #1)

Sat Apr 21, 2018, 10:29 PM

Apr 2018

Rightwing evangelicals have taken over the Republican Party. Once the Trump bloom fades, evangelicals will latch on to the next rightwing craze, just like they took over the tea party before Trumpism came along.

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The GOP is gone: You have the TEA Party and the Trumps [View all] FairDemocrat Apr 2018 OP

The conservative movement is nearly finished Xipe Totec Apr 2018 #1

Well put. flying rabbit Apr 2018 #2

Reagan changed the regulation laws back in 1987..I could find it FairDemocrat Apr 2018 #3

I beg to differ! quartz007 Apr 2018 #4

You are making a rhetorical separation between.. JHB Apr 2018 #8

That should be straight forward... quartz007 Apr 2018 #18

No need to beg; differing opinions are allowed. nt Xipe Totec Apr 2018 #9

Cheers! quartz007 Apr 2018 #19

I don't think it will end. Blue_true Apr 2018 #6

Evangelicals have lost their mojo Xipe Totec Apr 2018 #10

I watched Pat Robinson call out a hit on Hugo Chavez on his Evangelist show FairDemocrat Apr 2018 #12

No. The TEA party was ALWAYS the GOP. They pretended otherwise as a cop-out. JHB Apr 2018 #5

It needs a new name! n/t RKP5637 Apr 2018 #7

Well put, because they are far from being conservative..Amish are conservatives FairDemocrat Apr 2018 #11

This has been brewing for probably 30 years inwiththenew Apr 2018 #13

Longer than that look up Ronald Regans 30 year plan the republicans put thier signature on FairDemocrat Apr 2018 #15

Here is something we may not take into consideration enough: world wide wally Apr 2018 #14

Sheep think it is easier to all wear the same hat..I was taught to think for myself. Look at facts FairDemocrat Apr 2018 #17

Actually, they have just arrived at their inevitable end stage. Caliman73 Apr 2018 #16