The GOP's progress during the last four decades is a stunning political achievement. But it is also a cautionary tale of what happens to a dominant party - in this case, the Democrat Party - when its thinking becomes ossified when its energy begins to drain when an entitlement mentality takes over and when political power becomes an end in itself rather than a mean to achieve the common goal.
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