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Sunday 2 September 2012

Taken together, it suggests that Romney envisions a whole new road to the White House. Having seen the failure of John McCain’s party-snubbing image in 2008, Romney is calculating that in today’s bitterly polarised climate, he can no longer follow the old path of flipping back to his moderate image and cobbling together a winning coalition from the centre. Instead, his ultraconservative positioning shows he is betting that a Republican can only win a presidential election by mobilising his party’s hard-Right base. This is why the long-term transformation of the Republican Party is so significant. Whereas the party’s old orthodoxy was ideologically rooted in a few ideals — lower taxes for everyone, smaller government, rhetorical support for equal opportunity — today’s party canon is a litany of bizarre and specific shibboleths. It backs everything from crushingly regressive taxation and intrusive policies banning abortion, to institutional discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, to state anti-immigrant laws that effectively endorse racial profiling. Romney has moved American politics well to the Right

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