Steamer is wrong in this way:

The Republican Party in the US isn't some moderate group of consensus seekers, and they aren't a fringe group of right wing radicals...they are *the* right wing radicals.

In the short span of my life most of the Republican Party platform has both been co-opted by the Democrats, and then demonized by right wing whackos as being "far left".

In the grand scheme of things, Republicans are way the fukk out there, and Democrats are just left of center.

There have been a lot of studies on it over the last 20 years, and the most current one is referenced here:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/26/opinion/sunday/republican-platform-far-right.html

Here is where Republicans fall on the "right vs. left" spectrum:



Essentially, if you are left of Atilla the Hun, American Republicans accuse you of being a Communist.

They are way fuckin out there, and while most countries have far right wingnut parties, too, they are fringe parties...in the US, they are 40% of the electorate.

See those parties in German, Switzerland, and The Netherlands immediately to the right of the GOP?

Those are literal Nazis.

Fish on...

Todd