The NY Times reports on the 2015 exercise in GOP madness known as the Iowa Caucuses. The fact that their prime promoter is Iowa Congressman Steve King, is a good indicator of just how seriously warped the party's ideology has become and how far-right forces have so fully captured its heart.
Unfortunately the evidence of this in the Times piece is scattered, so let me reorganize the salient points as follows (below the orange whirly doo):
