Did you really link something which opens by calling the Republican party extremely far-right as evidence that they aren't that?
> Did you really link something which opens by calling the Republican party extremely far-right as evidence that they aren't that?
This should be obvious from the fact that I shared it, don't you think? I'm confident that the average HN user is perfectly capable of reading through the Times' biases and getting to the underlying facts, even if you had trouble.
Two examples.
About twenty years ago they spearheaded modest-to-mediocre efforts at expanding Medicare; today, post-ACA, the party seems intent on an unprecedented degree of privatization and deregulation.
In 2002, GWB was able to mandate increased military smallpox vaccinations with little to no resistance; now almost all GOP party members are on the record as against any form of vaccination mandate (exception: Gov. DeWine of Ohio, who famously received hundreds of death threats from his own partisans over the issue).
I intentionally chose the tamest examples of a substantial platform change in the GOP over the past twenty years, but many more come to mind.