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Why the GOP is teetering on the edge of dissolution

Why the GOP is teetering on the edge of dissolution

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I've been thinking a lot this weekend about how a narcissistic charlatan like The Donald could emerge as the front runner for the presidential nomination of the Party of Lincoln. I see two closely related reasons. First, the Obama Presidency has been so profoundly destructive to America's position in the world, so disruptive of our cultural norms, and so dispiriting for believers in the democratic-capitalist version of the American Dream, that there is widespread frustration and desperation fro

I've been thinking a lot this weekend about how a narcissistic charlatan like The Donald could emerge as the front runner for the presidential nomination of the Party of Lincoln. I see two closely related reasons. First, the Obama Presidency has been so profoundly destructive to America's position in the world, so disruptive of our cultural norms, and so dispiriting for believers in the democratic-capitalist version of the American Dream, that there is widespread frustration and desperation fro…