# USA: What do you think the GOP/right-wing platform really is? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 2, 2012, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-what-do-you-think-the-gop-right-wing-platform-really-is/608192 "2012-01-02T22:49:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-what-do-you-think-the-gop-right-wing-platform-really-is/608192/61 "2012-01-03T18:28:01Z")
If what you really think is different from what you say you think, I, for one, would be pleased to hear it. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-what-do-you-think-the-gop-right-wing-platform-really-is/608192/62 "2012-01-03T18:29:10Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I think it’s pretty obvious what the GOP would do if they were in power: > > - Keep income taxes and cap gains taxes low. Try to lower corporate taxes. > - Try, but fail, to cut spending according. > - Restrict abortion as much as the courts will let them > - Ensure that DOMA stays the law of the land > - Reduce regulation as much possible > - Halt any increases in the min wage > - Relax environmental standards as much as possible. Oppose any climate change initiatives > - Repeal the HCRB; try to enact some type of HCR that would tinkering around the edges > > That’s just off the top of my head. > I’m not sure what they would do militarily, as the isolationist wing of the GOP is getting pretty strong. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-what-do-you-think-the-gop-right-wing-platform-really-is/608192/63 "2012-01-03T19:51:37Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > **John Mace** has already answered part of the question in the OP by pointing (quite appropriately) to the GOP website. Anyone who wanted to actually know what their platform was could go there and find out. But that’s why **Czarcasm** et al. got all upset and rejected that. They have no interest and no ability to learn what the GOP/right wing platform is. They want to post their most lurid fantasies of dark conspiracies of evil and the evil money-grasping plutocrats and yadda yadda. The problem is that when I come in and laugh at it, and mock it, and point out how ridiculous it looks to someone who doesn’t chug-a-lug the liberal Flavor-Aid by the truckload, it sort of spoils the fun. That’s a net gain, because there is a _little_ less impetus next time a thread like this gets kicked off. The problem is, in part, that the GOP platform is from 2008. There has been some fundamental change in what the GOP appears to actually be about, and I think that is what is being asked about. For example, from the GOP Platform website: > [@](#): > > We affirm both the right of individuals to voluntarily participate in labor organizations and bargain collectively and the right of states to enact Right-to-Work laws. But recent efforts in many states to restrict that right to collect bargaining would mean that this no longer applies. Or does it? So which way does it go? Or again, from the GOP Platform: > [@](#): > > We support the Government Shutdown Protection Act to ensure the continuance of essential federal functions when advocates of pork threaten to shut down the government unless their wasteful spending is accepted Yet it seems many of the GOP, including at least 2 presidential candidates, were willing to default on the US debt in order to …something. Make a point? Punish holders of US savings bonds? I’m still not sure. So what is the actual GOP position now? That, I think, is the core of this question. Not an attempt to sneer and point and laugh, at least not on my part. Do you really need me to go pull all the examples of the platform that seem to contradict recent GOP behavior? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-what-do-you-think-the-gop-right-wing-platform-really-is/608192/64 "2012-01-03T20:43:10Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > If you want to beat your head against this particular brick wall, feel free. I don’t (at this point) care to bother, so I will simply point and laugh at the more absurd claims of what the extreme Left thinks I think. …and everyone else will continue to assume you don’t know what you think because you appear to be unable to explain it. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-what-do-you-think-the-gop-right-wing-platform-really-is/608192/65 "2012-01-03T20:56:57Z")
> [@smiling\_bandit](#): > > I’m curious, although it’s. Do other board leftists believe this? I am naturally suspicious when **Der Trihs** claims something is “well known.” > > After some thought, I would say, as I have before, that Republican party has four broad sentiments, though each one isn’t necessarily what liberals think of them as, and you’ll find broad support for most of the others. Here is where it gets confusing. I view the Democrats as being a party composed of numerous discrete interest groups. African-Americans. Women’s Groups. Wall-Street (I know it’s not too popular to point this out, but yes, the votings patterns don’t lie). Lawyers. Many more, of course, but that’s the point: each tends to have tighter grouping, but the overlap between them is minimal. > > Republicans have broad ideological goals, which don’t always, or even usually, conflict. However, we do not, despite Der Trihs assertion, have much organization, and what is, is purely local. The Democrats have, and have had for ages, a much more effective national organization - one which I honestly admire, at least in its effectiveness. The thing to understand about Republicans is that we are localists at heart. We ally with other across the nation, but we don’t perceive ourselves as being brothers in arms. We’re simply like-minded people. Nor do we shy from criticizing each other; just not in the same way we’d criticize others. There’s no real line between being inside or outside the party, whereas one can easily be a member of an organization dedicated to liberal goals. Anyway, onto the groupings. Imagine this as a cloud with several points of greater thickness and solidity. I don’t believe the democratic party has a strong or unified party. When the Iraq war came up tons of democrats voted for it. However now that the democratic party is in power the GOP is nearly unanimous in its opposition to the policies of the obama administration. The democratic party has never, from what I can tell, had that kind of unity. Part of it is that republicans are more involved in primaries, and outside financial interest groups are more willing to fund primaries from the right. The base of the democratic party really doesn’t have that kind of influence or power. The GOP fears its base, the democratic party holds its base in contempt. Part of it is that the GOP has a lot to lose if it infuriates its base, the democrats do not. Nationally, I really don’t see anything about the democratic power that would imply they have a strong organization. Plus the dems have divisions. Liberals (who make up 20% of the electorate and 40% of the democratic party) are socially and economically liberal. Minorities and reagan democrats tend to be economically liberal but socially conservative, and minorities and reagan democrats are extremely easy to divide. But there are divisions among the economically liberal. Some support anti-poverty efforts, some only support liberal economics as a way to empower the working middle class and view programs for the poor as a form of taking from those who work and giving it to those who don’t. At the same time another group (known as disillusioned, among others) tend to be lower wage, lower education and less motivated. Getting them to bother to vote is a hassle, and they are the ones affected most by the voter suppression efforts the GOP have engaged in on a state by state basis. The only thing the democratic party really has going for it is demographics and the fact that their views are not popular among millennials and minorities. Which is another point, groups like ALEC are pushing voter suppression laws on a state by state basis for a reason, because they make it easier for a pro-business government to thrive and flourish on a state level. The democratic party has no equivalent of ALEC. In fact when the democracy alliance was created in Colorado (uniting gay rights groups, environmental groups, labor groups, poverty groups, wealthy benefactors, trial lawyers, etc) to pool their talent pool and financial resources that was considered a massive step forward. But that was a statewide Colorado initiative. The democratic party has nothing on the national level that is the equivalent from what I can tell. Maybe it is a grass is greener thing. But I don’t think the democrats are organized the way the GOP is. The GOP, while I don’t agree with their policies, know how to unite and use their abilities well. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-what-do-you-think-the-gop-right-wing-platform-really-is/608192/66 "2012-01-03T20:57:56Z")
I would add to what **John Mace** outlined (which is largely correct, IMO) that if you want to consider the baseline GOP budgetary policy you could look at the budget they passed out of the House (sometimes called the “Ryan Budget”). It lays out what the current budgetary priorities of the GOP are, as well as their plans for entitlement reform. I also agree that the GOP stance re: foreign policy is largely chaotic at this point, as the need to rhetorically oppose Obama have come up against much of the earlier rhetoric of promoting democracy in the Middle East. Most of the presidential candidates seem to be considerably more bellicose wrt Iran than Obama is (Paul being the noteworthy exception). ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-what-do-you-think-the-gop-right-wing-platform-really-is/608192/67 "2012-01-03T21:58:40Z")
> [@Tristan](#): > > The problem is, in part, that the GOP platform is from 2008. There has been some fundamental change in what the GOP appears to actually be about, and I think that is what is being asked about. For example, from the GOP Platform website: > > But recent efforts in many states to restrict that right to collect bargaining would mean that this no longer applies. Or does it? So which way does it go? Do the majority of Republican run states fall in that category? If not, then I’m not seeing your point. No party is monolithic. > [@](#): > > Or again, from the GOP Platform: > > Yet it seems many of the GOP, including at least 2 presidential candidates, were willing to default on the US debt in order to …something. Make a point? Punish holders of US savings bonds? I’m still not sure. So what is the actual GOP position now?? Again, not seeing what the issue is. They didn’t want to raise the debt limit. That would not have stopped “essential government services”. But the fact is, they did agree to raise the limit. Don’t confuse a negotiating tactic with a long term strategic goal. If I want to buy your house and offer you $200K, that doesn’t mean I won’t eventually settle for $225k. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-what-do-you-think-the-gop-right-wing-platform-really-is/608192/68 "2012-01-03T21:58:54Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > **John Mace** has already answered part of the question in the OP by pointing (quite appropriately) to the GOP website. Anyone who wanted to actually know what their platform was could go there and find out. Yep, it’s all there— nothing to be debated, questioned, or held up to the harsh light of reality. Similarly, one wishing to completely understand the actions and motivations of, say, the government of North Korea need only check their website. If you’re a _real_ stickler, they also have plenty of helpful and informative newscasts, billboards, murals, and parades to tell you everything you need to know. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-what-do-you-think-the-gop-right-wing-platform-really-is/608192/69 "2012-01-03T22:03:11Z")
> [@puddleglum](#): > > It is an article of faith among liberals that they have come to their political opinions using their enormous brainpower and flawless moral reasoning and anyone who opposes them does so because they are unthinking sheep being told what to think. Politics is primarily a way to show how much better they are than everyone else. Only if you are using “liberals” as a dishonest euphemism for “politically interested persons of all ideologies.” If so, the above is at least arguable, if not, then it’s pure damned bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-what-do-you-think-the-gop-right-wing-platform-really-is/608192/70 "2012-01-03T22:08:06Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > What is interesting is seeing the division between neoconservatives (who support an aggressive, militant foreign policy) vs the rise of libertarians like Paul who want more isolationism. Paul is emphatically _not_ an isolationist. Isolationism entails reducing or eliminating foreign trade, withdrawing from international bodies, reduced diplomacy; It’s anathema to anyone who champions free trade, which Paul does. Paul is a _non-interventionist_ which basically means “no non-defensive wars.” It’s not just a semantic nitpick: everyone knows _isolationism_ is essentially impossible in the 21st century, which is why people supporting an aggressive foreign policy use it as a smear against anyone who wants a reduced military. > **[Isolationism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolationism)** > > Isolationism is a political philosophy advocating a foreign policy that opposes involvement in the political affairs, and especially the wars, of other countries. Thus, isolationism fundamentally advocates neutrality and opposes entanglement in military alliances and mutual defense pacts. In its purest form, isolationism opposes all commitments to foreign countries, including treaties and trade agreements. In the political science lexicon, there is also the term of "non-interventionism", which Th... ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-what-do-you-think-the-gop-right-wing-platform-really-is/608192/71 "2012-01-03T22:12:32Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > What list? You’re not still saying you think that list you posted was correct, do you? > > I think it’s pretty obvious what the GOP would do if they were in power: > > - Keep income taxes and cap gains taxes low. Try to lower corporate taxes. > - Try, but fail, to cut spending according. > - Restrict abortion as much as the courts will let them > - Ensure that DOMA stays the law of the land > - Reduce regulation as much possible > - Halt any increases in the min wage > - Relax environmental standards as much as possible. Oppose any climate change initiatives > - Repeal the HCRB; try to enact some type of HCR that would tinkering around the edges > > That’s just off the top of my head. > I’m not sure what they would do militarily, as the isolationist wing of the GOP is getting pretty strong. And much, more. The concept was what would the GOP do if they had a filibuster-proof majority and the presidency. Right now the GOP isn’t about “as much as possible” it’s about taking it to eleven. What I initially wrote: > [@](#): > > No birth control, no abortion, turn medicare into a much more expensive voucher program, turn social security into a much less safe stock market program, greater tax cuts for the wealthy, increased taxes for the poor and middle class, states teaching evolution alongside full barrel creationism, reduced child labor laws, a fence keeping out low wage workers and increasing costs for consumers all across the board, more executions, more incarceration, more military intervention, making our for profit health care system more profitable… If the Republicans now in congress had the votes and the presidency they would do all of this. Except for perhaps the Newt thing about the children workers. The voucher thing is in the Ryan budget. The Tax thing is in every presidential candidate’s proposals. As is the evolution thing and there is clear support for the “dang” fence. They are attacking planned parenthood at every chance. All the major candidates support a personhood amendment that would abolish most hormonal birth control. Allowing insurance to be purchased across state lines would make the health care system more profitable and less functional (by allowing all insurance companies to go to the state with the lowest regulations). Yada yada yada. The most important thing though, is that they would: 1. reduce our credit rating by not increasing the debt limit. And 2. send us into a second recession / depression by slashing millions of government jobs on top of that. Their plan to lower taxes on the rich to as close to zero as possible isn’t something that will create significant jobs. The overall idea was what could one person do to do the most damage to America. And I say, elect a Republican lock on government. The smoking wreckage our economy would be after four years of that would certainly make 911 pale in comparison. A world-wide depression and no desire to help the people they financially destroyed. ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-what-do-you-think-the-gop-right-wing-platform-really-is/608192/72 "2012-01-03T22:13:25Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > It’s entirely clear that the people who have traditionally had to real power in the GOP are motivated by plutocracy alone. Well, sure, but I think the OP is looking for ways they _differ_ from the Democrats. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-what-do-you-think-the-gop-right-wing-platform-really-is/608192/73 "2012-01-03T23:11:39Z")
I guess you can take two approaches here: Make an honest attempt to understand what the GOP platform is or try and paint the GOP in the worst light possible. I’m seeing a lot more of the latter than the former in this thread, so I shan’t waste any more time here. I’m not especially an expert on the GOP platform anyway, so maybe an actual Republican will be interested in helping out those who are genuinely interested. This isn’t rocket surgery. But just one final note, which I already mentioned earlier: The GOP taking over does not equate to Tea Party America. In order for the GOP to do so, they have to get a number of moderates elected. That’s the same for the Dems. This is not a majority Tea Party country. If you want to discuss what a Tea Party America would be like, that’s another discussion-- a hypothetical that isn’t going to happen, though. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-what-do-you-think-the-gop-right-wing-platform-really-is/608192/74 "2012-01-03T23:15:49Z")
I realize we all look like **Der Trihs** when we paint the GOP as cartoonishly evil, but… you’re assuming that’s inaccurate nad we’re just zealouts. But the GOP really has been cartoonishly evil lately - it doesn’t take exaggeration. The most common defense of that is essentially disbelief that half the politics in the US could be evil - but that’s not logically impossible or anything. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-what-do-you-think-the-gop-right-wing-platform-really-is/608192/75 "2012-01-03T23:48:25Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Do the majority of Republican run states fall in that category? If not, then I’m not seeing your point. No party is monolithic. Really? You don’t think it’s worth speculating that the aftermath of state elections in 2010 shows the Republican Party to be rather more hostile to labor rights than their 2008 platform indicates? As for whether the national party would follow that lead, I’d go by what congressional Republicans have actually done as a batter guide than what the said in 2008 that their goals were. Does their platform indicate that they would shut down the National Labor Relations Board? Doubtful. But even in the minority, they’ve now actually done that. As of the Jan. 1st expiration of Craig Becker’s recess appointment, the board no longer has a quorum, and is prohibited from making decisions. Basically, it’s now open season on anyone trying to unionize. Just fire them all. The government can’t do anything until the Republicans relent or Obama breaks with recent custom and uses the recess appointment power while the GOP is trying to keep the Senate in _pro forma_ session. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-what-do-you-think-the-gop-right-wing-platform-really-is/608192/76 "2012-01-04T00:06:22Z")
> [@waterj2](#): > > Really? You don’t think it’s worth speculating that the aftermath of state elections in 2010 shows the Republican Party to be rather more hostile to labor rights than their 2008 platform indicates? You confuse lack of care for care with opposition. To us, unions are a neutral factor favoring some workers over others. If they conflict with the public interest, they may lose their privileged place. Note that Republicans took action against unions where economic and financial issues essentially required it. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-what-do-you-think-the-gop-right-wing-platform-really-is/608192/77 "2012-01-04T00:34:24Z")
> [@smiling\_bandit](#): > > You confuse lack of care for care with opposition. To us, unions are a neutral factor favoring some workers over others. If they conflict with the public interest, they may lose their privileged place. Note that Republicans took action against unions where economic and financial issues essentially required it. Ah, that’s right. financial issues _demanded_ that teachers but not firefighters lose their right to collectively bargain. There was no politics to that, of course. And using the filibuster to stop the NLRB from functioning was entirely _demanded_ by conditions, and the Republicans are merely disinterested with the right of employees to organize without getting fired. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-what-do-you-think-the-gop-right-wing-platform-really-is/608192/78 "2012-01-04T01:34:43Z")
Abortion is not as necessary for the GOP plutocrats for keeping the social conservatives fired up now that they have gay marriage to frighten them with. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-what-do-you-think-the-gop-right-wing-platform-really-is/608192/79 "2012-01-04T01:43:27Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > I think that’s a dangerous idea that can lead to disaster when you assume that they really won’t do something crazy that they are threatening. There’s plenty of genuine True Believers among the Republicans. I said they wanted to exercise the power they obtained. That means attempting their crazy ideas. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-what-do-you-think-the-gop-right-wing-platform-really-is/608192/80 "2012-01-04T04:02:49Z")
> [@smiling\_bandit](#): > > You confuse lack of care for care with opposition. To us, unions are a neutral factor favoring some workers over others. If they conflict with the public interest, they may lose their privileged place. Note that Republicans took action against unions where economic and financial issues essentially required it. I don’t think they were motivated by finances. The GOP pushed various programs (tax cuts, stronger military) that cost money and didn’t blink on the subject. The real motivation of the GOP is political power. Labor unions are about the only well heeled source of financial support and political volunteers for progressive agendas (labor put about $400+ million and millions of volunteer hours in the 2008 election). Demolishing the public sector unions (private sector unions have for all intent and purposes already been abolished) will make it harder for progressives to win legislative victories. Republicans took action because the political environment gave them the capacity to take down a powerful ally of their political opposition. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-what-do-you-think-the-gop-right-wing-platform-really-is/608192.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-what-do-you-think-the-gop-right-wing-platform-really-is/608192.md?page=5)