text:  who feel the NRA is too moderate. These groups have popped up and kind of absorbed the membership that jumped ship. The truth is that the NRA isn't really even necessary anymore. The Republican Party has completely absorbed all of those policies so that in place of the NRA, we really have NRAism. And all of those things the NRA fought for are totally, you know, a sure thing with the Republican Party. And the NRA really, it was so successful, it made itself unnecessary.