It is time to get very afraid: Extremists, authoritarians now run the GOP — and no one can stop them – Salon.com

Read it all at the link. This conspiracy is as old as the New Deal and it’s coming to a head in 2016. Be grateful that not one Republican leader has any charisma or even the skill to hide his or her true nature.

by Heather Cox Richardson 

We should be very afraid. Boehner and McConnell are not wild-eyed lefties. They are on the very far right of the American political spectrum: fervently pro-business, antiabortion, opposed to social welfare legislation. But they are old-school politicians who still have faith in the idea of American democracy.

Movement Conservatives do not. They want to blow up the government and remake America according to their own radical ideology.

Since the 1950s, Movement Conservatives have set out to destroy the form of federal government that came out of the New Deal. After the Great Crash and the ensuing Depression, most Americans believed that the government must regulate business and protect labor in order to create a stable, prosperous society. But businessmen hated the very same New Deal regulations most Americans liked.

It is time to get very afraid: Extremists, authoritarians now run the GOP — and no one can stop them – Salon.com

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