The Future of the GOP Currently Is a Long, Painful Decline. Paul Ryan Saw the Writing on the Wall — Who's Next?

The Future of the GOP Currently Is a Long, Painful Decline. Paul Ryan Saw the Writing on the Wall — Who's Next?

NBC News 'THINK,' 5.18.18

Opinion-editorial by Corey Robin, a professor of political science at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. Robin argues The future of the Republican Party lies not in forging strong national majorities to enact conservative legislation that will fundamentally alter the political conversation, as the GOP did under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, but in taking refuge in the least democratic branches of government: the Senate and, behind and beyond the Senate, the courts.