Krugman on the GOP

The reality-based community has long asserted what Paul Krugman sums up in his column this morning in the Times: That the GOP is more a faction dedicated to power acquisition that is in direct conflict with the American people than it is a political party representing citizen views.

Forty years ago the G.O.P. decided, in effect, to make itself the party of racial backlash. And everything that has happened in recent years, from the choice of Mr. Bush as the party’s champion, to the Bush administration’s pervasive incompetence, to the party’s shrinking base, is a consequence of that decision. ... That’s why the soon-to-be gone administration’s failure is bigger than Mr. Bush himself: it represents the end of the line for a political strategy that dominated the scene for more than a generation.
The reality of this strategy’s collapse has not, I believe, fully sunk in with some observers.

That's an understatement.