Regarding the GOP, a correspondent notes:
With luck, perhaps the Acheulean period of GOP policy is winding down and new ideas will dawn on the Republican horizon…but I’m not holding my breath. They’ve traded stone axes for scriptures, but don’t seem capable of going beyond that.
I’m inclined to think a new political party, formed from the semi-sane remnants of the GOP, may emerge. I have trouble visualizing its organizing tenets, though.