So, another Republican presidential debate brings more confirmation of what the Republican Party has become. It's probably the most reactionary major conservative party of any in the advanced industrial world. It can't be a coincidence that the two most aggressive know-nothings in the race, Donald Trump and Ben Carson, are the two leaders in the polls. The Republican Party has become the anti-Enlightenment party, extremely antithetical to the Enlightenment ethic of expanding knowledge which animated the founders of this nation. Half of Republican voters don't believe in evolution; only 37 percent believe in this long settled matter of how life on Earth exists. And until very recently, most...
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