How Did This Happen to the GOP? [View all]

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I recommend reading the whole thing.

The thing is, it’s not just the RNC that has no authority. For years now, we’ve seen that even Speaker of the House John Boehner has no juice. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell can’t do a thing with that august body. No one cares what Reince Priebus has to say. Jeb can’t scare away Mike Huckabee, let alone Lindsey Graham.

It’s just a vortex of stupid that is devouring everything in its path. The architects of this vortex are as varied as Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzales and Regent University jurisprudence, neoconservative foreign policy, the mighty right-wing media wurlitzer, the campaign finance laws, the lack of any accountability for anything ever, the things defending torture does to the human spirit and the brain, the folks who will pay any price to keep science from interfering with their bottom line, what happens when you have to lower your standards to make Ed Meese and Sarah Palin acceptable…

There are so many architects. Grover Norquist and Ralph Reed and Bill Kristol and Lee Atwater and fucking Donald Segretti if you want to get down to it.

This is what happens when virtually every malevolent force in the country is allowed to pursue their path in an uncoordinated way, chipping, chipping, chipping away at the institutions of the country and the decency of everyday folks.

It doesn’t end in the glorious victory of the Conservative Revolution. It ends in chaos and confusion.

One of our two allowed political parties is defunct and yet somehow controls Congress and most of the states.

Almost unbelievably and despite their remarkable electoral successes, they need to be fired just like Michael Steele…before they really win something.

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2015/6/12/03059/4717