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In reply to the discussion: Please check in if you believe the GOP has gone insane. [View all]JohnnyRingo
(18,628 posts)...the flames of which were fanned by neo-con politicians and news contributers. The White House stoked those flames as well to lever fear into public support for a war or two. The level of insanity was still of the temporary sort, and would have worn off after the shock, but...
After seven years of this living with the fear of another attack, and the hatred needed to maintain our vigilance, a black man was elected president.
The right never saw it coming.
They viewed it as an unexplainable event in an all too rapidly changing country, and they went from the edge right off the cliff.
I absolutely believe the Tea Party, and the GOP by proxy, have gone completely insane. I don't think there's any coming back for them either. They'll have to either die off over the years, or get mental help.
...I don't mean regular help either, they'd have to go to Austria or some country where those kind of doctors live.