Are we seeing the end of the Republican Party?

No. What we are seeing is normal party tension between competing ideological wings of the party. We saw & still see similar tensions in the Democratic Party when Bernie Sanders, a socialist, was running against Hillary Clinton, a liberal, during the presidential primaries. read more

Over the last few election cycles we’ve become accustomed to a narrative of Republican civil war that pits the G.O.P. establishment against its base, and liberals especially have become fond of depicting the G.O.P.’s development as a simple-enough matter of a once-mainstream party allowing itself to be pulled steadily rightward by its extreme, revanchist voters and activists. read more

Rep. Charlie Rangel of New York joins MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell to discuss. read more