Paul Krugman’s OpEd today succinctly lays bare the catastrophic derailment of the modern Republican party.
Behold the train wreck that is the modern G.O.P.
My short answer is that the long-running con game of economic conservatives and the wealthy supporters they serve finally went bad. For decades the G.O.P. has won elections by appealing to social and racial divisions, only to turn after each victory to deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy — a process that reached its epitome when George W. Bush won re-election by posing as America’s defender against gay married terrorists, then announced that he had a mandate to privatize Social Security.
Over time, however, this strategy created a base that really believed in all the hokum — and now the party elite has lost control.
What Paul Krugman said. . .
I went into all of this, at length, here:
http://bloggingblue.com/2012/02/09/beat-the-victim-reward-the-abuser-its-the-republican-way/#comment-90988
Let us celebrate the death of the “conservative” movement, the death of the Republican Party, the rebirth of Democracy, the rebirth of the 99%.
Here’s what economist Bruce Bartlett, the architect of Reaganomics has to say about the economic “ideas” that today’s Republican Party has to offer:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/13/1064329/-Bruce-Bartlett-The-GOP-No-need-for-economist-They-need-a-psychiatrist-and-a-socioligist-?via=siderecent
‘Nuff said.