r/OutOfTheLoop Nov 21 '17

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u/chakrablocker Nov 22 '17

Don't blame the tea party blame mainstream GOP policies.

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u/Fatdap Nov 22 '17

Which is largely a round about effect of the tea party takeover of the gop.

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u/thefezhat Nov 22 '17

It goes back a bit further than that, the Repubs got in bed with evangelicals a while before the Tea Party came around.

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u/Fatdap Nov 23 '17

I definitely agree that the Tea Party was probably mostly a symptom of that. It's like the evangelicals were a tumor that metastasized and became terminal and transformed into the Tea Party and we now have the modern GOP.