In 30 years, We've moved from being moderate Democrats to -

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31. I think I would agree if you added one word: "openly"

The right, certainly since Carter lost to Reagan, has been racist, misogynistic, and evil. But prior to Gingrich and Rove they played it down. Gingrich and Rove enabled them to take pride in their narrowness and meanness, to brag about it openly or at least to dog-whistle so loud it can be heard clearly among its current, depraved mass of voters.

Even with Reagan, the right hid its racism behind a screen of welfare fraud: "See, we’re not racist, we just don’t like these people defrauding the government, these 'Welfare Queens' and also we don’t like these black men who just want to rape white women, like Willie Horton. But many of them, the blacks, are good people.”

Now-a-days it’s just, flat out and open:”We don’t want them black people voting. We don’t want their travails in this country to be made known to our white children. We don’t want them being valedictorian and salutatorian of their graduating class if there are capable white children to take their place -- and, of course, there will ALWAYS be capable white children to take the place of those black so-called honor students.”

The right has always been what it is today, but today its stink is more pungent and sickening. (Are you listening Roy Blunt?)