- How did the Republican Party become so conservative? https://www.salon.com/2019/07/05/how-did-the-republican-party-become-so-conservative/ 38 comments politics
- What Republican Voters Want - 54% said the party should become more conservative, not less. http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/what-republican-voters-want/?_r=0 175 comments politics
- The Republican Party Is Becoming a Bloodbath: Donald Trump is causing conservatives to turn on each other, and it's not pretty http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122573/republican-party-becoming-bloodbath 136 comments politics
- End of the Charade - With $50 million worth of ads set to be spent in support of conservative politicians, the Chamber of Commerce has become an arm of the Republican party http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/opinion/end-of-the-charade.html?_r=1&hp 129 comments politics
- Republicans want their party to change, by becoming more conservative "If anything, Republicans want their party to be more conservative, a new Pew poll finds." http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/08/23/republicans-want-their-party-to-change-by-becoming-more-conservative/?tid=rssfeed 95 comments politics
- Conservative Judge Richard Posner: "I've become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy." http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/07/05/156319272/federal-judge-richard-posner-the-gop-has-made-me-less-conservative 48 comments politics
- Nearly two-thirds of Republicans want their party to change its direction, and more than half say they want the party to become more conservative, according to a new poll http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/gop-poll-half-want-more-conservative-party-94988.html 5 comments politics
- A well-respected judge who was appointed to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by President Ronald Reagan says that he has become less conservative because of “crackpots” and “lunatics” in the Republican Party. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/06/reagan-appointed-judge-republican-lunatics-made-me-less-conservative/ 10 comments politics
- How Science Has Become Taboo for Republicans Seeking the White House: The importance of the ultra-conservative vote, championed by a religious, anti-evolution electorate, is not lost on the contenders seeking their party's nod to face Obama. http://www.alternet.org/environment/153610/how_science_has_become_taboo_for_republicans_seeking_the_white_house 3 comments politics
- The Death of Moderation: Republicans Have Become a Party of Naysayers -- While Romney may want to govern as a statesman, he won't be able to count on his party for support. For years, many US conservatives have given up political responsibility in favor of hardline ideology. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/mitt-romney-s-republicans-are-a-party-of-naysayers-a-852817.html 2 comments politics
- Fighting the right: conservatives find Republican party line hard to follow -- Conservatives are becoming disillusioned with their party, due to extremist tactics - ''How do you [energize your base]? You do that by scaring the s--- out of stupid people.'' http://www.smh.com.au/world/fighting-the-right-conservatives-find-republican-party-line-hard-to-follow-20120713-221ch.html 51 comments politics
- Max Boot: I look at what the Republican Party has become today and what the conservative movement has become today. It has no resemblance with what I knew growing up. I’m not at all surprised to see that young people today are completely against Trump and the Republican Party. https://www.desertsun.com/story/life/2020/01/28/the-corrosion-conservatism-why-max-boot-broke-up-republican-party/4570312002/?fbclid=iwar0rqhw2jvsmsxphoqwzm_2walwdiq2anr0gyj9_esye7aliu4lpojr6tdk 28 comments politics
- Conservatives who believe that refugees will back the Republican Party become more likely to favor policies welcoming the new arrivals to the US. Liberals overall were more accepting of immigrants regardless of their anticipated political views. https://academictimes.com/conservatives-support-for-refugees-spikes-if-newcomers-expected-to-back-gop/ 1196 comments science