At the Present Time

At the present time the Republicans are fast morphing into a regional party. It is quickly becoming a national party no more. The party is becoming isolated in the white South where its appeal is based on race, a residue of the white backlash to the civil rights movement that began in the 60's. Like Paul Krugman says, we need a viable Republican Party, but let's get a progressive agenda in place first.

As the GNOP gets smaller, it continues to enforce ideological purity, which makes it even smaller. These people don't learn, do they?

The hard right never dies in this country. It just becomes dormant like it did for a time in the 60's. The hard right is like the weeds in the lawn. They go away temporarily, but sooner or later they come back.