re: #286 HappyWarrior

The problem I see with the GOP though long term is even their younger leaders are batshit. Just thinking about GOP notables under 50- Cruz, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, Nikki Haley, and Susana Martinez. These people may look young and fresh on the surface but their ideas are more or less the same ones that are part of the GOP’s descent to madness. I think the GOP needs as many here have said a landslide defeat where they have to realize that their strategy and ideology doesn’t resonate with the vast majority of Americans. And they need to do it with one of the fabled true conservatives too.

One way to look at this is that the assorted cranks and misfits that were swept up into the GOP as a result of the civil rights realignment really weren’t getting what they wanted out of the GOP establishment in the 70s and 80s. So they embarked on a long term project to take over the party to make it more responsive to their primal urges.

This project is presently nearing completion.