GOP insider: Religion destroyed my party A veteran Republican says the religious right has taken over, and turned his party into anti-intellectual nuts
BY MIKE LOFGREN
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Having observed politics up close and personal for most of my adult lifetime, I have come to the conclusion that the rise of politicized religious fundamentalism may have been the key ingredient in the transformation of the Republican Party. Politicized religion provides a substrate of beliefs that rationalizes—at least in the minds of its followers—all three of the GOP’s main tenets: wealth worship, war worship, and the permanent culture war
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