[marcusverus]

The GOP is an American party, which represents American citizens and competes for American votes. Until the GOP opens up shop in the EU, the notion that they are "extreme" because of the opinions of European voters is utterly nonsensical.

> Did you really link something which opens by calling the Republican party extremely far-right as evidence that they aren't that?

This should be obvious from the fact that I shared it, don't you think? I'm confident that the average HN user is perfectly capable of reading through the Times' biases and getting to the underlying facts, even if you had trouble.