I feel like there's a big generational divide in terms of lib/left people that remember a GOP pre-Gingrich and those that do not. Not that Cold War GOP was sunshine and rainbows by a long shot, just in terms of remembering a Republican Party where you could read books without being called gay.
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They're just not Republicans.
The religious right either became irreligious or left the right.
And the paleocons/groypers are just Fitzhugh and Calhoun in new and exciting outfits.
They've driven the overwhelming majority of them off, and any with better options pursue them.
Now the President has a direct line to the most conspiratorial Birchers alive.