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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
I think it is that the center has moved. 30 years ago ( maybe even 15 years ago) it was casual to be homophobic and to promote biblical morality so long as you were not explicitly racist. This is no long a centrist opinion. For the most part moderates find homophobia intolerable, and extreme.
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That's basically the only position that has not moved to the right.
Open racism on the right is totally okay now, as long as you're putting it to words in somewhat civil ways, and even when you're not. In economics, many Tea Party positions like absolutism on taxation are now just complete mainstream right wing positions even in the Nordics. Thinking that all social security should just be over is totally acceptable position on the right. Abortion rights are a battle ground etc.
There are many in the GOP who were absolutely serious about wanting the US to default on it's loans, because that's how seriously they think the government should massively downsize (and when they say downsize, they mean social security and things like FDA, not military or the police obviously).
The GOP is completely insane, but the overton window has moved so far into insanity that people aren't even really reacting to it, not in the US or in Europe.