2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Brutal must read from the Sun Sentinel....Republican party is finished [View all]tex-wyo-dem
(3,190 posts)To the far right wackos for decades (since Reagan if not a little before). But up until fairly recently, the pandering has been mainly during election cycles to get their vote; once the elections were over, the crazies were shoved aside and forgotten until the next election.
Recently (during Obama's first term), however, some in the old GOP establishment thought it a good idea to create the tea party to help thwart many of Obama's initiatives, especially healthcare reform. IMO what I don't think they counted on was the teaparty actually organizing in any meaningful way, much less actually getting very far-right people elected to very high positions. As a result, the party has gotten pushed so far to the right that even long seated establishment GOP politicians are being forced out to that limb just to keep their seats.
The inmates are now truly running the asylum and the GOP is fucked. No way to easiily turn back now.