Who will win the battle for the soul of the GOP? Will it be the establishment or the tea party? The libertarians or the social conservatives?
Well, after watching all sides battle it out at the Conservative Political Action Conference, I have come to a definitive conclusion. Are you ready? Here is the answer: It doesn’t matter.
That’s right, who wins and who loses in the fight for control of the Republican Party is totally irrelevant. Sure it’s a fun parlor game to look at whose up and whose down in the Ted Cruz/Rand Paul showdown.
Wait, no it’s not. It’s a terrible parlor game.
If you care about the future of this country the Republican Party machinations are of no consequence. There are a few reasons, first look at this graph. There’s an unprecedented gap between the voting preferences of young voters and everyone else. Millennials may not be crazy about self-identifying as Democrats but whatever they call themselves, they’re liberal. They are much more likely to vote Democratic than older generations. So Republicans, do you know why in 5 of the last 6 presidential elections you’ve lost the popular vote? It’s because every year the electorate is becoming more influenced by the millennials who are more liberal than any other modern generation and (sorry GOP) are staying that way. To paraphrase Sally Field at her Oscar win, they don’t like you, they really don’t like you.








