Cult, more than a party: The Republicans are like a cult

What conservatives write in the National Review and the opinion pages of theWall Street Journal are not what the conservative elite actually think. Those articles are for the conservatives in the pews. They are the official conservative line for dissemination to the little conservatives who are by and large not well served by the movement they support. There is a pathway for this misinformation: Wall Street Journal opinion page to Rush Limbaugh to the dittoheads. As awful as those dittoheads are, they aren't going to be so easily led if Rush was telling them, "We need to let the poor die so the rich can be free to not pay a penny more in taxes." And part of the problem is that we liberals don't call out the conservative movement for what it is. We need to stop pretending they actually function as a normal political movement. It is all about the people believing the Truth brought to them by the elites. It is all faith-based down low, but at the top, the elites have very sensible reasons for their beliefs.

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