When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality?

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America desperately needs a responsible and compassionate alternative to the Obama administration’s path of bigger government at higher cost. And yet: This past summer, the GOP nearly forced America to the verge of default just to score a point in a budget debate. In the throes of the worst economic crisis since the Depression, Republican politicians demand massive budget cuts and shrug off the concerns of the unemployed. In the face of evidence of dwindling upward mobility and long-stagnating middle-class wages, my party’s economic ideas sometimes seem to have shrunk to just one: more tax cuts for the very highest earners. When I entered Republican politics, during an earlier period of malaise, in the late seventies and early eighties, the movement got most of the big questions—crime, inflation, the Cold War—right. This time, the party is getting the big questions disastrously wrong.

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Source: New York Magazine

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  2. danhamilton reblogged this from the-feature and added:
    Sane sensible must read
  3. 321chickman reblogged this from alibananaa and added:
    I’m actually more of a political moderate most of the time…and I find myself agreeing with much of what this guy is...
  4. assert-zero reblogged this from the-feature and added:
    Read this. And don’t give that “tl;dr” crap Mr. Cain.
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  8. classicmcconnell reblogged this from the-feature and added:
    If you’ve been wondering where the moderate republicans have gone, take a read.
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  12. wolfperson1 reblogged this from the-feature and added:
    Though I think this guy is occasionally still caught in the lack of facts arena, this is an interesting article.
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