The Republican Party’s official position on global climate change is a prominent example. In the past decade, the Party has developed an inverse relationship between reality and ideology. It was less than a decade ago that the GOP’s Party platform acknowledged the reality of climate change not just once, but 15 times. There are at least two ways for Republicans to realign their official ideology with reality. Research suggests that the Republican rank and file is influenced by party identity more than by climate science.

Source: Huffington Post June 06, 2017 17:31 UTC