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After years of infighting and ideological insanity, Republican insiders are having what appears to be a revelation about their party. Earlier this week it was the conservative David Brooks, who confessed in his New York Times column that the “House Republican caucus is close to ungovernable these days” and that the “Republican Party’s capacity for effective self-governance degraded slowly, over the course of a long chain of rhetorical excesses, mental corruptions and philosophical betrayals… Basically, the party abandoned traditional conservatism for right-wing radicalism.”
Brooks doesn’t quite follow his insight to its logical conclusion, though. If he did, he would have conceded that the GOP is essentially done as a viable and productive national political party. Brooks, one assumes, still has hope that Republicans can course-correct before it’s too late.
The Republican National Committee Chairman, Reince Priebus, seems even more somber than Brooks. In a forthcoming interview with the Washington Examiner,Priebus openly admits that the GOP is in serious trouble if it fails to win the presidency in 2016:
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