# "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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**Author:** ![Condescending\_Robot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a183cd/32.png) [@Condescending\_Robot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Condescending_Robot)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-the-gop-lose-touch-with-reality-by-david-frum/604320/322 "2011-12-07T02:53:20Z")

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> They were cheering that there was someplace where they were still using the death penalty. There are people, myself included, who think it should be on the table and used.

And, given the objective fact that innocent people have been executed and the death penalty is unevenly applied across races, the fact that you think the death penalty should be used means that you enjoy death and are a racist.

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> There are people who don’t think gays should serve in the military and would like to go back to Clinton’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.

Because they don’t think homosexuals are people. If you think this, you must think they deserve human rights including equality. The contrapositive holds.

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