The Republican Party is Dead

The party of Lincoln? Roosevelt? Eisenhower? - gone.
What wears it's clothes and bears it's name is just the right wing of the old Democratic party. Ronald Reagan is who they purport but it's more the party of George Wallace and Strom Thurmond.
The Democrats started hemorrhaging defectors around 1948 and it's been a steady flow resulting in the rise of the neocon/tea party movement. They exhibit all the tactics of the Progressives, forcing the majority of the society to their narrow vision and chipping away at people's liberties day by day. The term "conservative" might as well be "sweet potato" since it has nothing to do with the philosophy of these people.
Their popularity in decline and ardent popularity is close to only 7%.
Their base is heavily weighted white but the white population is proportionally shrinking. Pat Buchanan asks, “Has the bell begun to toll for the GOP?”
What poses as the Republican party today is like the demonic possession of a semi rotted corpse bent on imposing a worldview of that demon's twisted hell.
but, hey, whadda I know?