What happened to the Republican party?: and what it means for American presidential politics
The Grand Old Party-once moderate and even magnanimous-has fallen into a prison of its own making when it comes to presidential politics. Republicans may be having a heyday in the Congress but their prospects for the 2016 presidential election aren't great-and won't improve unless and until they break out of their intellectual and ideological straightjackets and start speaking to where the American public lives: geographically, culturally, and politically.