What is the future of the Republican Party?

A party with any kind of future as a legitimate, rational, valued part of governance doesn't attempt widespread voter disenfranchisement by blocking black people from voting. read more

If he wins on that basis, though, it seems even more likely that in the future social conservatives within the Republican Party would be asked to take responsibility for the outcome and help the party avoid candidates and platforms that are doomed to finishing second. read more

In this light, instead of revising Republican policies to stop future Barack Obamas and Hillary Clintons, maybe it’s necessary to revise only the party rules to stop future Donald Trumps from confronting party elites with their own unpopularity. read more

*** Today’s Republican Party is predominantly a Midwestern, white, working-class party with its geographic epicenter in the South and interior West. Today’s Democratic Party is a coalition of relatively upscale whites with racial and ethnic minorities, concentrated in an archipelago of densely populated blue cities. read more