This is a media fabricated crisis. Unfortunately losers like Paul Ryan give them more gas to fuel the fire.
The GOP elitists who are being voted out of DC aren’t leaving in a dignified way. They’ve lost and they’re still (and this includes Cruz) scheming to win by losing.
Not at all media driven !!
Look at what has happened here at FR
There are many contributors who have left this site and gone elsewhere
due to personal emotional attacks, and group thuggery.
Will they come back ?
They will come back only if they feel welcomed and allowed to participate with intellectual freedom and open discourse.
It's up to you
The media made a lot of confusing mess because of definitions ...
Republican(ism), Conservatism, Populism, Americanism, etc.
I tried to read a couple of intelligently composed articles here in FreeRepublic that attempted to sort the whole thing out and my head started swimming in the same reminiscent confusion of communism, fascism, socialism, Fabianism ...
Ahhhh let's call the whole thing off
Life was so much easier when we had Norman Rockwell speak tomes of understanding without writing a word !