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Roe v. Wade decision and other ‘extremism’ proves GOP is like ‘Ku Klux Klan’: NY Times columnist Krugman
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New York Times columnist Paul Krugman claimed that the closest comparison to alleged "extremism" in the Republican Party was the Ku Klux Klan from the 1920s.
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"Many political analysts have spent years warning that the G.O.P. was becoming an extremist, anti-democratic party," he began, adding that even before Donald Trump, scholars "declared that the party had become ‘an insurgent outlier’ that rejected ‘facts, evidence and science’ and didn’t accept the legitimacy of political opposition."
He continued, "Even now, with Republicans expressing open admiration for Viktor Orban’s one-party rule, I encounter people insisting that the G.O.P. isn’t comparable to Fidesz."