Both parties have been morphing--sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse--and which often depends upon one's personal priorities & orientation--throughout their histories.
Certainly much of the recent leadership of the Republican Party, particularly at the Federal level, has been a manifest disaster. They act like "whipped curs," on the most crucial issues, which affect our most cherished institutions; indeed issues that will effect, whether America survives in a recognizable form. Unmasking their total inadequacy is important; important beyond the merely economic; important beyond anything merely theoretical. They are, in effect, conceding the end of the Founder's clear vision for the future. With neither common sense, analytic competence or the mettle of anything remotely resembling leadership, they are surrendering every legitimate line of defense.
But let us not suggest that the Party Quislings, are the only definition of a political party. There are others, perhaps staying in the Party, because of pride in something their parents did in 1964 or 1980--or maybe something their great grandparents did in 1896, when the Conservative Grover Cleveland Democrats, lost that party to slogan spewing, class-warfare embracing Leftists. Or perhaps simply inspired by something one of the few genuine Conservatives said recently.
The Party does not have to die. It merely needs to boot out an inadequate, forked tongued leadership, which is either totally clueless or totally indifferent to what is required to save the America that better men won by successive generations of purpose driven struggle.
Unfortunately, the Repub party has many former democrats who were quite liberal but unable to stomach the stench and insanity of the Rats. We’re kind of stuck with them. That’s why the two party system is broken. We can’t achieve representation of our views.
No, the party must die. It represents nothing of honor or virtue or decency.
For the sake of discussion, let’s acknowledge the fact that there were some otherwise decent people in the German nazi party. I have no doubt that there were even some in the upper echelons who thought gassing Jews was a bad idea. Yet, thankfully, the allies didn’t seek to “compromise” or try to “reform the nazi party from within.” No, we decided the nazi party offered nothing of value and we destroyed it
In much the same way, the gop needs to be destroyed.