The GOP Is in a Revolution

Chris Cillizza: “There is a revolution happening within the Republican party right now. The establishment’s hold on power is more tenuous than it has been at any time in recent memory. There is no one currently in office that can claim with any credibility that he or she speaks “for” the party as a whole.”

“That’s a remarkable development since, for decades, the GOP was known as the party that, eventually, got in line… No longer. McCarthy’s demise comes hard on the heels of Boehner bowing out of the speakership as a sort of human sacrifice to the tea party right. And it happens as Donald Trump is in the midst of his fourth consecutive month as the Republican front-runner for the party’s presidential nomination — and with Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina, two other people who have never held elected office before, running in second and third place, respectively.”