Once again NR uses the wrong tool on the wrong nail, and in an article so poorly written that it would have raised Bill Buckley's hackles (may he RIP). GOPe isn't dead because they are "progressive-lite" but because they are thoroughly corrupt sell-outs. They don't actually care about ideology. They (well their crony-capitalist backers) just want their cut of the deal.
Once folks get it through their heads that GOPe is too venal to have ideological scruples they will begin to understand the depth of the betrayal of what used to be America.
And “progressive lite” suggests what ideological scruples? Besides cowardice?