What I find remarkable lately is what appears to be a wholesale abdication of responsibility by the former leadership of the GOP, thereby leaving an open playing field for the far right wing.
It has now been 15 months since the last election, with no sign of any emergent moderate national leaders.
The impression I get, and I hope I am wrong, is that not only the centre-right but also an increasing portion of the mainstream of the Republican party seem to be deserting the rudderless ship like rats running down the gangplank.
If this responsible leadership vacuum is allowed by moderate conservatives to continue much longer, then there may well be cause to fear for the very survival of the GOP as we know it.

*paranoid rant off*