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I think the author is trying to dismiss as a 'quirk' a totally valid observation. Look at Nixon, in many ways he was a liberal. The EPA was created under Nixon. The Reagan regime was worse than Nixon and what we have now is worse still. The above paragraph seems to be trying to perpetuate the myth that the Republicans have stayed where they were politically and that it is the Democrats that have moved far to the left