The GOP has hit bottom. We shall see if they ask for a shovel or start to climb out.

As CJ notes,

…in their denial of many areas of modern science (based on either religious fanaticism or cynical political calculation for personal profit), their continuing, relentless attempts to roll back progress on women’s reproductive rights…

For me, the party’s stand on science will tell the tale. Science is neither progressive or conservative. Science is our terra firma. Science does not have a specific morality or religion. Science does not disenfranchise anyone. Like Lady Justice, science is blind.

Accepting science will influence everything else.

The ball is the GOP’s court.