“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.” —Groucho Marx
In just a few words, Groucho Marx summed up the current state of the Republican Party heading into the 2016 presidential elections. Since the start of George W. Bush’s second term nine years ago, the party has been in political free fall. The GOP is in a state of transition, moving away from the Washington D.C. establishment-based, neoconservative party that has dominated Republican politics for a generation toward one increasingly controlled by conservative and populist interests outside the Beltway. CONT.
Doug Sosnik, Politico Magazine