This is what I really didn't expect from the National Republican Party

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69. It reminds me of Communist Party just before the Soviet Union collapsed

I've studied European history and there has always been much debate over the causes of revolution and how empires rise and fall. One of the characteristic signs of great powers in collapse is when their governing ideological justification, their raison d'etat, begins to contradict itself. For the old Soviet Union it was Marxist/Leninism. After the workers' uprising in Poland, when genuine proletarian soviets revolved against the Stalinist state, that philosophical foundation was exposed to be nothing more than a propaganda fraud. For the Republican Party, the party which had always stood for anti-authoritarianism, free trade, small business and farmers, limited powers of the government, especially the president, their traditional principles now seem like pure hypocrisy, just a lip-service rationalization for power. So if history is any predictor the Republican Party as we know it is dead.