Big reach with no evidence. Play nice.
Agreed.
Repubs are in terrible disarray & really have been since it all fell apart for them in 2008.
Instead of admitting that their policy has shown some shortcomings, might need to be tweaked a little, they've just fanned the flames of rage & resentment.
They did so quite brilliantly in 2010, no doubt, used victory to entrench that bitterness in heavily gerrymandered districts & any other place they could. In the process, they over-promised to the most radical elements in their base, strung them along, fed their delusions & it's starting to catch up to them.
They've empowered extreme & rigid minority positions whose adherents constantly throw themselves against the walls of reason, who'd rather break the govt than see it run any way other than the way they want. They don't want to solve problems through democratic means- they just want to fight, tear down anything and anybody who gets in their way.
They stymie constructive majority compromise & action.
The Party apparently wants to keep their votes, no matter what, so they can't be honest. They can't say "That won't fly with the majority of Americans so you might as well forget it." They can't even admit they might have made any mistakes at all. They can't admit that they need to alter their headsets to better deal with the negative aspects of a reality they've shaped in no small way.
If Jeb bows out, their choices for Prez run from dismal losers to pure suicide.