How the GOP Surrendered to Extremism

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8. A big part is the who allowed this in GOP

This is a very good historical account of the 1964 right-wing leap of the GOP, but this occurred because of the 'whos' in that party, that lead it to that point.
After WWII, the neocons started the new and improved marketing program for the GOP. It involved some very wealthy people, who still today are using that family money to instill those 'neocon' values into core Republican thinking.
They started the John Birch Society, the main founding families were Wisconsin based. The Allen Bradley fortune was a key startup donor and the heirs, the Richard Uhlien (Uline.com) family continues to fuel the fear mongering marketing. The JBS HQ is in Appleton, WI, near the grave of Sen Joe McCarthy. We had the posse comatatus in the 1970's which is now the Tea Party gun freaks roaming the woods.
The current wisc legislature is controlled by some of the nation's most exteme racists, nationalists and anti-socialists that even the 1964 Goldwater die-hards would be embarassed over.
Until we, as a nation, prevent gerrymandering, Citizen's United and all the other sneaky runaround processes in our political systems, we will never end this decpetion and prevent our political parties from doing the right thing that our Constitution offered us, initially, and currently.

The who behind the what & when are still critically important to find out the why this is happening.