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Originally Posted by Red Slinger
I would argue yes. The TEA party ran candidates against Republicans in primaries. It's really as much as you can do in a 2 party system.
The Reform Party and UCP were both parties farther to the right than the traditional conservative parties and ran against them. It didn't take too long for the parties to merge and move further to the right.
Right-wing ideologies usually have strength and power as one of the dynamics. So, it's not surprising that they tend to be pragmatic when it comes to splitting votes and watering down their influence.
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Hmm, admittedly the two-party system makes it hard to differentiate between a party split and an ideological split inside a party.
I'm also personally of the opinion that the more-or-less-fascists have been the majority within the Republican party for quite some time now. It's mostly a split between outright fascists and people who support all the same ideas but are too ignorant to actually know what fascism is.
This video puts it very well. (It's a video you need to watch in full, sorry.)