I upvoted you but I might disagree with that last sentence, not because I'm some raging democrat, I'm not. I'm farther to the left than most (in America at lea

I upvoted you but I might disagree with that last sentence, not because I'm some raging democrat, I'm not. I'm farther to the left than most (in America at least) and the reaction that establishment democrats have had to the sanders campaign has been a thing of hideous beauty and would, on the surface confirm your point. But its worth noting precisely how bad obfuscation, lying, etc has become within the republican party in the last few decades. Norm Ornstein has written about this extensively and was more or less ostracized for it within the establishment political media. This is a conservative scholar who works at the American Enterprise Institute. Not exactly an expropriator coming for your small business and golf courses. He's far from the only one. Mike Lofgren (former republican staffer), Lawerence Wilkerson (former chief of staff to Colin Powell), hell even John Kasich has made oblique reference to it this primary season. Rick Pearlstein had an excellent (if long) essay were addresses exactly this question; the dishonesty at the heart of the modern republican party.