Krugman on the Repug Party

See his whole scathing diatribe about the Party of Wackos. 

"The point isn’t that the G.O.P. believes untrue things. It is, rather, that the party has become hostile to the very idea that there’s an objective reality that might conflict with its political goals. [...] Notice, by the way, that I’m not including qualifiers, like saying 'some' Republicans. We’re talking about most of the party here. [...] At this point, you aren’t considered a proper Republican unless you hate facts."

"There has always been a conspiracy-theorizing, science-hating, anti-democratic faction in America. Before Reagan, however, mainstream conservatives and the Republican establishment refused to make alliance with that faction, keeping it on the political fringe. Reagan, by contrast, brought the crazies inside the tent."