# "When Did The GOP Lose Touch With Reality" by David Frum

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 28, 2011, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-the-gop-lose-touch-with-reality-by-david-frum/604320 "2011-11-28T05:29:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-the-gop-lose-touch-with-reality-by-david-frum/604320/121 "2011-11-29T23:33:36Z")

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> [@Terr](#):
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> What’s hilarious is that you (plural) manage to combine the belief that GOP is more and more marginalized by its appeal to “crazy and unscrupulous” in the face of the fact that the country is split 50/50 Rep/Dem.

Since when? Plenty of people aren’t either.

> [@Terr](#):
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> Is half the population in the US “crazy and unscrupulous”? No, let me guess - you think that only 20% is “crazy and unscrupulous” (all on Republican side of course) and the other 30% are just stupid so they get taken in by the Republican lies.

It’s not like there’s any other alternative; the Republicans are crazy and unscrupulous. Supporting them means that you are too, or that you are too stupid/ignorant to realize it.

And I think that _only_ 20% of the American population being either crazy or unscrupulous is an _optimistic_ number.

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