Is the conservative movement collapsing?

[Marokai Backbeat]

The problem is there's been absolutely no unified idea of what the Conservative movement in America even is since Bush left office. Absolutely none. The Republicans have been a completely disorganized mess ever since then and have been united by nothing more than hating the Democrats, but when it comes to policy, beyond "repeal ____" they can't agree on any policy agenda. The Conservative movement such as we knew it collapsed years ago and the last several years have just been different factions warring over the wreckage.

What makes all of this sad is that they somehow win elections as opposed to being relegated to the electoral wilderness for a decade to regroup and rebrand as would happen in basically any other democracy. So we get to see these people eat their own while simultaneously trying, and failing, to govern. There's a reason this and the previous GOP primaries have been such clusters. It's really only due to the Democratic Party's incompetence they've retained as much relevance as they have.

It's kind of a depressing picture of American politics, honestly. One side doesn't know what in the world they're doing, and the other side does know what they want to do, but bumbles around doing so at almost every opportunity.