I don’t really have a dog in this fight since I’m more of a democratic socialist but the GOP has changed since I started voting in the late 80s, but not really taken over. It’s more like putting a tiny drop of food coloring in water. You didn’t really notice at first but eventually it’s quite obvious the color has changed. The favoring the rich has always been a common theme but the bend toward anti-intellectualism, single issue voters, racism, and pandering to the religious right were always there but it has definitely gotten way worse. So he’s not wrong it has changed. Could people like him have done more about this direction shift, hell yes. But in my opinion we need more of this realization to weed out this toxic behavior, not less.
I don’t really have a dog in this fight since I’m more of a democratic socialist but the GOP has changed since I started voting in the late 80s, but not really taken over. It’s more like putting a tiny drop of food coloring in water. You didn’t really notice at first but eventually it’s quite obvious the color has changed. The favoring the rich has always been a common theme but the bend toward anti-intellectualism, single issue voters, racism, and pandering to the religious right were always there but it has definitely gotten way worse. So he’s not wrong it has changed. Could people like him have done more about this direction shift, hell yes. But in my opinion we need more of this realization to weed out this toxic behavior, not less.