…”today’s GOP is, fully and finally the party of Ronald Reagan-not Reagan the pragmatic politician, who could and did strike deals with Democrats but Reagan the antigovernment fanatic, who warned that Medicare would destroy American freedom. it’s a party that sees modest efforts to improve Americans’ economic and health security not merely as unwise, but as monstrous. it’s a party in which paranoid fantasies about the other side-Obama is a socialist, Democrats have totalitarian ambitions-are mainstream. And, as a result, it’s a party that fundamentally doesn’t accept anyone else’s right to govern.”

Read the entire column at;

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/opinion/26krugman.html