The End of the Republican Party?

By Ross Douthat

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015 1:03 PM

http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/01/the-end-of-the-republican-party/?comments#permid=15977519

What we are witnessing, I believe, is that conservatives are being caught up in and strangled by their own web of long running ignorance, lies, deception and devicive propaganda. They have bombarded their followers with this nonsence for decades, to the point where the rank and file have come to actually believe this nonesense. Trump has become the "pied piper" who takes all these idiodic conservative slogans, prejudices and lies and is leading a significant portion of the conservative true believers over the cliff.

No, I don't believe that the GOP will cease to exist because of this. But this will be a lesson for the more sane elements within the GOP (they do exist, see all the people who have chosen to depart from Senate and House) to realize, that spreading lies and misinformation and dogmatic nonesense has consequences: people will actually come to expect that you will deliver on the idiotic promises you made (reduce taxes, shrink government), and that you actually have a solution to the non-existent cataclysms (ObamaCare, Planned Parenthood) you have shouted about.

The actual record of GOP administrations in terms of deficit, taxes, big government, and solving social problems is dismal.