The Myth That Republicans Are Growing More Extreme

My article in today’s FrontPageMag: The Myth That Republicans Are Growing More Extreme By Matthew Vadum There is an insidious meme afoot that in the Obama era Democrats have been heroically restraining themselves by clinging to moderate policies while ideologically extreme Republicans have gone hog-wild in the pursuit of conservative purity. Today’s Democratic Party makes common cause with the criminals who burn down poor people’s neighborhoods in American cities. And yet the Right is somehow alleged to be more susceptible to “extremism.” Sharpening her class-warfare guillotine, Hillary Clinton calls for the “toppling” of the one percent. She copycats her potential … Continue reading The Myth That Republicans Are Growing More Extreme