The Great Divorce: How Republicans Abandoned Reality for "Principles" and Fucked America in the Process

Let's get one thing straight before we dive into this hellscape: I'm not here to coddle your feelings or pretend there are "very fine people on both sides.", like Donald Fucking ShitsHisPants Trump. What I'm about to lay out is the most consequential political bait-and-switch in modern American history—how the Republican Party deliberately chose to divorce itself from objective reality in favor of "principles" that could be twisted, contorted, and weaponized to seize and maintain power.

The 1970s weren't just about disco, bell-bottoms, and Watergate. They marked the moment when GOP strategists made a calculated decision that has been fucking up American politics for the past five decades. They recognized a golden opportunity: by positioning themselves as the "party of principles" rather than the party of practical governance, they could tap into the reactionary Christian base that felt increasingly threatened by the social progress of the 1960s. This wasn't some accidental drift. It wa…