GOP
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GOP is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between February 09, 2021 and March 18, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as ""the GOP has gone crazy and is a threat to democracy""; “I would so much rather the GOP have real policy ambitions”; “Climate change for the Democrats, social decay for the GOP”. It most often appears alongside Democrats, Republicans, Trump.
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- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 4
- Issue count: 4
- First seen: February 09, 2021
- Last seen: March 18, 2026
Appears In
- Book Review: Why We’re Polarized
- Highlights From The Comments On Class
- Half An Hour Before Dawn In San Francisco
- Support Your Local Collaborator
Related Pages
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- Democrats (3 shared issues)
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- Republicans (3 shared issues)
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- Trump (3 shared issues)
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- Bernie Sanders (2 shared issues)
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- [[entities/concept/resistance|#Resistance]] (1 shared issues)
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- 1960s America (1 shared issues)
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- 1964 Civil Rights Act (1 shared issues)
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- A Real Dog (1 shared issues)
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- Abraham (1 shared issues)
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- Amazon (1 shared issues)
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- America (1 shared issues)
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- American Political Science Association (1 shared issues)
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In 1976, three years after Roe v. Wade, Democrats and Republicans were about equally likely to support abortion restrictions. That same year, a poll found that "only 54% of the electorate believed that the Republican Party was more conservative than the Democratic Party"; 30% thought there was no difference. As late as 2004, about equal numbers (within 5 pp) of Democrats and Republicans agreed with statements like "government is almost always wasteful and inefficient" and "immigrants are a burden on our country". Between the late 60s and early 90s, Democratic presidents deregulated the airlines and passed welfare reform; Republican presidents pushed immigration amnesties and founded the EPA.
Inline links: As late as 2004
In 1964, the Civil Rights Act threatened the Dixiecrats' key issue. It wasn't quite as simple as "Democrats were for it, Republicans were against it" - in fact, 80% of Republicans and 60% of Democrats supported it. But that year's presidential election pitted heavily pro-CRA Democrat Lyndon Johnson against anti-CRA Republican Barry Goldwater, beginning Southerners' defection to the Republican Party.
Stop for a second before reacting here. I get the impression that Klein understands he is taking a risk (not an actual risk of decreased popularity, given the givens, but some kind of metaphysical risk to his soul) by abandoning his previous attempt at a neutral stance and coming out like this. I think he feels bad about it, and that he considered not writing this chapter on that basis. I think it's very important to him that we consider the possibility that he wants to be neutral, is trying as hard as he can to be neutral, but that even from an attempted-neutral point of view he thinks the decline of the Republican Party is a threat to the stability of the country. And I think it's very important that we maintain a stance where we recognize this is a potentially true state of affairs - it really is possible that one party is much worse than the other! - and don't automatically condemn Klein for raising the possibility.
Sorry for the rant, I admit it just bothers me. I would so much rather the GOP have real policy ambitions that I disagree with than the fact that they seem to have largely given up on those ambitions. And I think it's important to draw your own judgment on whether or not to "believe" senators on the policies they advocate, not just what they say their stance is. I think Hawley is genuinely wary of the effects of Big Tech and other large corporations, and would like to reign in their power. I do *not* believe the policies he gestures towards on Twitter are actually the ones he wants to enact. I think he knows the Section 230 reform wouldn't accomplish anything like what he wants.
Everyone here thinks the world will end soon. Climate change for the Democrats, social decay for the GOP, AI if you’re a techbro. Everyone here is complicit in their chosen ending - plane flights, porn, $20/month GPT-4 subscriptions. “We have walked this path for too long, and everything else has faded away. We have to continue in wicked deeds [...] or we would have to deny ourselves.”
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