Originally Posted by deltav

The root of the problem here is that the American Right has realized in some fashion that most of their policies are outdated failures and they haven't come up with anything actually workable that also adheres to their ideologies - so they're stuck with either playing the fear card (SOCIALISM, immigrants, healthcare, etc) or just harping on these manufactured scandals that in the grand scheme are pretty irrelevant.

They're really just a hypocritical party going further & further adrift with nothing productive to offer. Just playing petty politics.

Which is a shame, because an intelligent rational voice offering true conservative principles would be good for the national conversation. I think in the next decade or so we'll see the Right start to fracture, and maybe then the sane portion can actually regain their clout.