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Leonard Wilson: GOP fanatics out of touch

Seems to me that evangelical, ultra-conservative Republicans who these days appear to represent the party majority are so filled with ideology and infatuation with our Founding Fathers that they have lost sight of common sense and everyday needs of most Americans’ essential fundamentals like housing, food, jobs, health care, equal opportunity for all and life’s other basics.

The party’s recent convention and its numerous orations appear to have driven this point home.

Leonard Wilson

Raleigh

This story was originally published July 23, 2016 at 6:00 PM with the headline "Leonard Wilson: GOP fanatics out of touch."

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