GOP Anti-Muslim Wing May Have Peaked

GOP Faction With A 'Bit Of A Bad Odor' Loses Influence
Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann attends a medical device roundtable event at Rasmussen College, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, in Blaine, Minn. (AP Photo/Stacy Bengs)
Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann attends a medical device roundtable event at Rasmussen College, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, in Blaine, Minn. (AP Photo/Stacy Bengs)

Over the last four years, a die-hard cadre of activists and their allies in Congress have dragged the Republican Party into a fever swamp of Islamophobia and barely-concealed anti-Muslim bigotry.

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