As The GOP’s Saint Ronnie of Reagan once famously explained, his move to the Republican Party was not a matter of him leaving the Democratic Party, but a matter of the Democratic Party leaving him.  Writing as a former Republican, I now feel the same way about the Republican Party’s descent into madness.  This didn’t begin with Trump, or even Sarah Palin.  Those of us whose memories reach back into the 1960’s recall the assorted wingnuts   populating the GOP of the past sixty years.  The Main Street Republican Party made a deal with the devil when it invited the rabble into the party, never once imagining they would take over the party - and the country - and try to drive it off a cliff.  It will be very interesting to see how the pending game of budgetary/debt poker plays out in the year ahead.  The disaffected elements of the GOP base feel they have so little invested in “the system” that they have nothing left to lose.If the Republican Party overreaches, forcing a debt ceiling breach and/or draconian budget cuts, we will be in uncharted territory.  At some point its members - especially the less educated and less prosperous members - may have to confront the consequences of their devotion to a party devout of genuine strategy.  I am done empathizing with these people.

As The GOP’s Saint Ronnie of Reagan once famously explained, his move to the Republican Party was not a matter of him leaving the Democratic Party, but a matter of the Democratic Party leaving him.  Writing as a former Republican, I now feel the same way about the Republican Party’s descent into madness.  This didn’t begin with Trump, or even Sarah Palin.  Those of us whose memories reach back into the 1960’s recall the assorted wingnuts   populating the GOP of the past sixty years.  The Main Street Republican Party made a deal with the devil when it invited the rabble into the party, never once imagining they would take over the party - and the country - and try to drive it off a cliff.  It will be very interesting to see how the pending game of budgetary/debt poker plays out in the year ahead.  The disaffected elements of the GOP base feel they have so little invested in “the system” that they have nothing left to lose.If the Republican Party overreaches, forcing a debt ceiling breach and/or draconian budget cuts, we will be in uncharted territory.  At some point its members - especially the less educated and less prosperous members - may have to confront the consequences of their devotion to a party devout of genuine strategy.  I am done empathizing with these people.

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