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  And those guys themselves were purgers of the sensible moderate/Rockefeller/Nixon GOPers when the Reagan/Gingrich faction rose to power. It's the latest devolution of a party thats been morally and intellectually bankrupt for 40 years.
context: Because they aren't the "fringe." They are the base, the standard ignorant, nasty, stupid GOP voter. I wish the media would stop pretending like mainline GOP politicians are somehow "fringe." >
  
  In 2010 we watched hard-core conservatives like Bob Bennett get defeated in primaries because they weren’t sufficiently crazy.  They actively purged moderates and old-school conservatives for years.