> they [Reagan and Carter] basically subscribed to the same religion and shared an idea of what a good society looks like. That’s no longer true. Agreed that i

> they [Reagan and Carter] basically subscribed to the same religion and shared an idea of what a good society looks like. That’s no longer true. Agreed that it's no longer true — now ask yourself why that is: • Carter was always a pragmatic liberal, a civil-rights supporter in 1960s Georgia. If anything, as the years have gone on, he has become more Christian — in the original sense of "accept that you're not God, and seek the best for your neighbor as you do for yourself." • Today's GOP would likely be unrecognizable to Reagan, and certainly to Eisenhower and Ford (and, perhaps, Nixon). Today, the folks running my former party regularly deride people like Mitt Romney, John Boener, and Paul Ryan as RINOs. In the 1920s and 30s, the NSDAP wanted a particular type of society in Germany. They largely got their wish — with world-catastrophic results.