President Obama is destroying the GOP..

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2. actually, the gerrymandering had a lot to do with it, as did the american voters.

the gerrymandering meant that many republicans are now in safe, partisan republican districts (having corralled the democrats into a small number of extremely safe democratic districts).

so they're no longer worried about losing to a democrat, they're now only worried about losing to another republican in the primary. so they're hell-bent on being extreme, regardless of what's in the nation's interest.


this puts them at odds with the rest of the republicans, who need a few democratic votes to get re-elected, or who actually have greater ambitions and need to have a more moderate track record.

this may be unintended consequences, but they did it to themselves quite by design.