RIP, GOP

I never loved the party, but today? I don't even understand it.

From Tom Nichols at The Atlantic Monthly, comes “The GOP Now Stands for Nothing.”

Nichols writes that Republican conservatism was once:

…predicated on some basic beliefs about human beings themselves, including the conviction that human nature is fixed rather than malleable, that intellect is a better guide to action than emotion, that tradition is valuab…