GOP is now mostly about how to spell "democratic" -- Big D versus small d
Given the radical initiatives being offered up by Republicans in many so-called red states and in D.C., it has now become easy to reduce the GOP's motive and strategy to a single sentence:
Republicans are anti-Democratic, so they've increasingly become anti-democratic.
Yes, it's democracy with a capital D, and here's what we mean:
As the past decade has shown, the Republican Party nationally and at the state level has been faced with an ever-more difficult electoral landscape. Minorities are gaining in the US population and they tend to vote against the GOP. Meanwhile, GOP policies -- re-jiggered in the Nixon era, engineered big time in the Reagan era and pursued with a vengeance since then -- have become increasingly unpopular among voters.
What's that, you say? How can this be true if Republicans remain soi obviously competitive, winning more than their share of presidential and gubernatorial and legislative races and judicial races?
Half a decade ago, Democratic pollster Rudy Texiera predicted the "rising donkey" of a new Democratic Party