Getting on the road to Republican resurgence

In his bitter attack on the new budget agreement, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, stumbled on the reality his party’s grim identity crisis. Since the Reagan era, the GOP represented a convergence of corporate interests, social conservatives and free market libertarians. Like Paul and the tea party, all three of these groups have lost power and influence under Trump.
Instead the Republican Party, notes Mike Barone, is morphing into something quite different: a hodgepodge of old economy stalwart