Though, a small point: “…although unlike the GOP, the Liberals haven’t purged their moderate wing to the same degree.” Come and live in Queensland, the northern state where the new Liberal National Party Government (a merged party of Liberal Party and National Party, where the National Party is extremely right wing) has gone on a rampage to marginalize and attack the LGBTQI community with deep venom. There is nothing moderate about this party and slowly, nationally the Liberal Party is losing its focus of economic liberalism and social freedom to economic hard line right wing and social engineering of a deeply conservative hue.