What Cliven Bundy Reminds Us About The Parties

As Rand Paul, Greg Abbott, and the entire Republican Party backpedal in the wake of Cliven Bundy’s racist remarks, Mark Kleiman reminds us why it is not a coincidence that it was the GOP that rallied to his support in the first place,

The Red faction, where the fringe has become the base and where no adult supervision is allowed to interfere with the dissemination of pure lunacy, is radically more detached from reality than the Blue faction. Of course there are Blue lunatics, but they aren’t allowed to dictate the terms of debate.

It is quite amazing that the GOP’s gubernatorial candidate in the second largest state and one of its presidential candidates were among those supporting this guy.

By: Stuart Shapiro

Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.