evidence: How Mitt Romney found himself alone in Republican Party [...] Mitt Romney has made no secret of his disapproval of the far-right takeover of his party. [...] COPPINS: I think that this process of coming to terms with his own role in the Republican Party, and what the party now stands for, was hard for him. There were some meetings where he would openly muse about leaving the Republican Party, and then the next meeting, he would walk that back and say, "Well, I’m not a liberal," and then, the next meeting, he would muse aloud about some of the compromises he had made. He would be a little bit more defensive. There’s something very human about that. There’s not a straight line toward enlightenment. That takes a lot of hard work.