In this FB post he aptly describes the modern Republican Party. He's right that they are not so much 'right' on a liberal/conservative spectrum. They are regressive.
"What do the multitudinous Republican aspirants for the presidency
really stand for? They differ from one another, but only in minor ways.
Together they constitute the whacky detritus that has become the modern
Republican Party.
"Mix the fears of working class whites whose
living standards are falling and whose social status is sliding, with
the relentless daily drip poison of Fox News, the radio rants of Rush
Limbaugh and his imitators, and the fulminations of religious fanatics,
racists, homophobes, xenophobes, and misogynists. Add in an interminable
flow of cash from a handful government-hating billionaires, brainless
emanations from the institutes they finance, and mindless obedience to
them by elected officials who are contemptuous both of scientific truth
and of the public good. And you have the modern Republican Party.
"To say the Party has moved to the extreme right is to suggest some set
of coherent values or core beliefs, some place on a continuum of
responsible and intelligible positions – with which respectable people
may disagree, or debate, or take issue. But that is not what has
happened. Today’s Republican Party is animated by hate and fear, not by
principle."
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