And that the party's platform, thanks to delegates like Kris Kobach, author of extremist state laws like Arizona's, is simply a grab-bag of harsh enforcement provisions, like national, mandatory workplace immigration checks and a double-walled border fence.
It is among the current provisions used to challenge attacks on the right to vote for voters of color in states like North Carolina, where extremist state legislators undermined access to the ballot at every stage of the electoral process.
Mr. Putin has long argued that Islamic outsiders exploited the semi-independent status given the breakaway Chechen province in the 1990's, in a drive to create a new extremist state on the model of Afghanistan.
US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said it was "not surprising to us that those who want an extremist state, or a heavily Islamist state in Syria, have taken issue" with an opposition endorsing pluralism and tolerance.
These issues are of unrepresented groups speaking out against an extremist state government taking away constitutional given rights".
We are now seeing the redrawing of our district lines, which is going to mean that North Carolina has the potential to turn around and no longer have a supermajority, extremist state government that was only that way because of racialized gerrymandering.
The idealistic vision of citizen journalism and "the fifth estate" has manifested as an information ecosystem in which polarized partisan extremists, state intelligence services, and terrorists push self-serving propaganda and attack the very idea of objectivity.
