David Frum: When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality?
An ex-Bush administration and conservative think tank member wonders where, why, and how the GOP went off the deep end.
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I’d say it was a 2 phased detachment: 1) The powers that be in the party realized they’d reached a point where they had “worked the ref” enough in terms of the media to the point that very few people in “journalism” would venture to call a lie a lie for fear of being labeled liberal. So instead we get a “both sides say” approach to every story, and 2) Once they realized they could energize their base wiht this new style media by completely detaching themselves from reality as long as the thrust of their point was something that pissed off liberals (which leads us now to them being against Republican designed policies and laws simply because they are being proposed by a Democrat.