"The Main Threat to This Country, to Its Prosperity and Basic Well-Being, Is One of Its Two Major Parties"

"How were Republicans able to dismantle so much so quickly? On a fundamental level, it's much easier to take something apart than it is to build it in the first place. Democrats are devoted to developing governmental systems—many of which are necessarily complex—to expand health care or safeguard wages or curb Wall Street greed, while Republicans are devoted to paring that entire apparatus back. This represents an almost ontological difference between the two parties. But the accelerant comes from the Republican Party taking its libertarianism to a crude, nihilistic endpoint. "

At the New Republic, Ryu Spaeth laments that, when regarding Barack Obama's accomplishments, "[i]t took the GOP less than a year to deliver that legacy a mortal blow."

And Steven Pressman at The Conversation describes how Republican policies eviscerate the middle class."