Steve Benen is worried: "Some of us have become so accustomed to the radicalism of today's Republican Party that a candidate can call for the elimination of the EPA, and it seems somehow normal and uninteresting. Too few of us even blink an eye at this garbage anymore. ... But being desensitized to madness isn't healthy. ... As Ed Kilgore responded, 'When the political center of a party, or a country, is in the process of shifting, there's a lot of noise and conflict. When it settles in its new place, however, it gets very quiet. To a very great extent, that's what has happened in the GOP. It is not a sign of 'sanity' or 'moderation'; simply one of consensus.' That this consensus leaves us with a radicalized party is a tragedy. That we're getting used to this radicalism seems nearly as bad."
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