http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/09/1419825/-Republican-insiders-continue-to-fret-over-their-party-s-obvious-slide-into-extremism
"We've been here before, of course. For years now Republican insiders have fretted that their party's obsession with racism, bigotry, religious zealotry and general "righteous" lawlessness has been making them look bad, and yet the Republican base not only continues to persist in all these things but seems to have ratcheted them up after each brow-furrowing plea for them to not do that. The Republicans just want to be a nice, simple party of doing good things for rich people, but decades of dog-whistles to racists and bigots in order to put together a coalition capable of winning has left them with a base of, unsurprisingly, racists and bigots."
