Rachel Maddow - Fearful Texas GOP base amuses nation with conspiracy panic

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6. Lets be honest here...

a dwindling 25% of Americans still identify as Republican. And if the trend continues as older mostly white people die off we'll be living under a two party system where at least one of those parties barely represents 20% of the population. And if the Democrats at 36% fail to reclaim their populist mantle the same will be true for them.

Who knows what percent of the Republican 25% believe that the federal government wants to take over Texas? But we're talking about a very small segment of the population of extreme RWers who continue to get a very disproportionate amount of attention from the media. In fact the same could be said for the whole party that now only represents 25% of the population.