# The Republican Party is the Party of Evil

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**Created:** [March 4, 2021, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187 "2021-03-04T17:43:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 1, 2022, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1106 "2022-05-01T14:36:23Z")

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In researching my Republican Freakout thread, I came across this beaut from 2011. Their detachment from reality and morality has been a long, long process.

(The thread itself may not contain any new insights, I bring it up merely to show how long their intellectual and moral deconstruction has been occurring.)

> [@Fantasy Island -Are Republicans losing their grip on reality?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantasy-island-are-republicans-losing-their-grip-on-reality/582841):
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> [Fantasy Island - Are Republicans losing their grip on reality?](http://www.slate.com/id/2295128/) Not really a GD, but more apropos here for discussion than elsewhere. This article is a near perfect encapsulation of my concerns about the Republican Party. I am a registered Republican because once, long ago, I believed we were the party of grown ups. Now we are borderline clowns.

‘Borderline clowns’, _pre_-MTG, _pre_-Trump, hell, 2011 was pre-_Cruz_.

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