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•"Ideological purity

•Compromise as weakness

•A fundamentalist belief in scriptural literalism

•Denying science

•Unmoved by facts

•Undeterred by new information

•A hostile fear of progress

•A demonization of education

•A need to control women's bodies

•Severe xenophobia

•Tribal mentality

•Intolerance of dissent

•Pathological hatred of US government

 

They can call themselves the Tea Party. They can call themselves conservatives. And they can even call themselves Republicans. The Republicans certainly shouldn't. But we should call them what they are, the American Taliban. And the American Taliban cannot survive if Dorothy Cooper is allowed to vote."

 

The Newsroom - HBO, August 26, 2012

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