Yup. Norm Ornstein at AEI has been good on this subject for a long time too. It began with Reagan, but jumped the tracks totally in the early 1990s with Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, then Drudge etc. It's an interesting question why the capitalist ruling class in America has proved so irrational and imprudent, so much so that "conservative" parties in other democracies would largely be moderate Democrats in the U.S.
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