How Republicans Became the ‘Barstool’ Party
politico.com
Doug Hamlin
698 days ago
I’d put it another way: Republicans have become the Idiocracy Party
A half-decade ago, the originally Boston-based site and its rabid fan community wouldn’t have scanned as “political” at all. But now, its proudly Neanderthal, reactionary ethos aligns perfectly with the side of our political binary that Trump reconfigured: the one whose common denominator is a tooth-and-nail, middle-finger unwillingness to accept liberal social norms.