It may be premature to claim to be hearing the Death Knell for the Republican Party, but unless they pull off some miracles soon we may see a long steady decline that will run for decades. I make this claim not as an exercise in over-confident liberal thinking (which Democratic bloggers are notorious for) but as a thesis based on a what I believe is a particularly nasty House of Cards they have built.
Specifically, I claim that the Republican Party has paid a dear price for their totalitarian control of government over the last 10-15 years. For the Republicans, maintaining control of government has become not only the means but the end as well. Some examples:
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