GOP Setting Up Dictatorial One Party System. Only GOPPERS On The Ballot. No Allowance For Dissent.

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7. The Grand Old Party is dead. It's been replaced by extremists.

Republicans have always had a weakness for conformity and authoritarian leadership, and thus (very unlike the Democratic Party) their party always had a centralized structure, with lower ranks obedient to the decrees of a central leadership.

But over the past few decades, almost all good conservatives in office and who might have entered were run off, vast sums invested to replace them with dutiful followers who are now obedient to those who will usher in modern-day economic and/or religious fascism if they can.