Which Party Has Gotten More Extreme Faster?

People outside the us know the answer to this. People inside the us also know the answer. It’s just that the answers totally differ. It’s a conservative country seeing the rise (again) of an isolationist, Protestant and anti-immigrant view of life. Unless some external agency appears forcing unanimity on government I would expect the two populations of the us to start litigating themselves apart over the next 5-20 years.

Who can and can’t do things, and who pays the bills will be the cause.

I want whatever drugs the author is on

This is a pretty weird article given how much party politics changed in the 1970s. Membership between the two parties shuffled in response to civil rights and other legislation in the 1960s. The reconstituted Republican party invented new extreme positions on stuff like abortion and gun rights. The shift toward ultra-low taxation and minimal government moved out of the fringe and became Republican mainstream with Reagan in the 1980s. At the same time the Democratic party reacted against all that while slowly becoming more inclusive of various underprivileged groups.

I feel like the article plays into and tries to reinforce the idea that Republican conservatives represent good old-fashioned American values, but both parties today would be almost incomprehensible to most voters from the 1960s. I don't think it really matters how far voters in either party have drifted from positions staked out by party operatives between the 1970s and 1990s.