GOP

Rachel Maddow sums it up.

“To most Republican politicians, particularly those competing for the Republican presidential nomination, where only Republican base voters will decide who’s allowed to run, if you have a choice between seeming insane to normal people and seeming righteous to the base, which are you going to pick?” Maddow said.
“There’s an incentive to pick seeming righteous to the base even if it is seeming nutty to everybody else,” she added.