I left @GOP nearly 18 years ago because, nearly ten years after Gingrich had become Speaker, I could no longer stand its antiscience, anti-intellectual bent, with evolution denial, refusal to allow embryonic stem cell research, and increasing hostility to climate science.
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It took nearly a decade for my misgivings watching
@GOP lose its freaking mind over the election of Bill Clinton and become increasingly the party of conspiracy theories and science denial to finally drive me away.1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes -
Basically, the invasion of Iraq was the final straw, the culmination of the decade before, when I became increasingly uncomfortable and alarmed at
@GOP and could no longer support it. But even I never thought it works get as dangerously nutty as it is now.0 replies 0 retweets 5 likes -
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Can you elaborate? I haven’t heard this take.
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I can’t remember the last time I saw a republican concerned about balancing the budget
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It was more than 40 years ago, before Reagan. Since then the deficit has only been a political weapon. They use fiscal discipline to hamstring Democratic Presidents, but whenever they control the White House and Congress, they blow up the deficit by slashing taxes on the wealthy.
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They blow up the deficit with tax cuts (which, contrary to their voodoo economics claims, do not pay for themselves though stimulating the economy) and bloated military spending and become deficit hawks against the next time @TheDemocrats take the White House.
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