“Somewhere in recent years, the GOP’s engagement with modern America…became dysfunctional”

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Somewhere in recent years, the GOP’s engagement with modern America and how to best project those values into a nation of 320 million people became dysfunctional. As the country has diversified, the party has remained monochromatic, has grayed, and rather than allowing some birch-like give on shifting cultural norms, has become an unbending oak of ideological purity. The GOP now finds itself lacking an intimate’s ability to criticize productively, given its demographic and cultural divergence from the majority of the country.

Most prominently, as has been said time and again, it is a party of breathtaking whiteness.

Clare Malone, “The End Of A Republican Party”, FiveThirtyEight (18 July 2016) [http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-end-of-a-republican-party]

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