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Voting red is no longer an option for any remotely patriotic American.
"Has become," cute. I think a reasonable argument can be made they became one post-New Deal and definitely after LBJ's legislation and the greater Civil Rights movement. They certainly were one by the time Barry Goldwater and Nixon's southern strategy.
Yep - happened as soon as racism became a policy cornerstone and the rest of the part just shrugged and got in line.
The GOP/Nazi party is in full bloom.
If you want to scare yourself further... Go read "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45" (Trigger warning because of book cover with a certain symbol).
Read It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis. It's disturbing.