Over the last 20 years or so, the far right has morphed into some sort of flat earth society, where facts don't matter and whose idea of civil discourse is the conservative infotainment echo chamber. The problem is that the country needs a conservative party fit for governing as a counter balance to liberal overreach. Sadly, the "Freedom Caucus" et. al. is simply too full of crackpots to fulfill this role.
On the whole, the country is moving forward. More opportunities for women and minorities, a retreat from fruitless, interventionist foreign policy, a realization of the fragility of the environment, and the understanding that .gov plays an important and constructive role, are all good.
Unfortunately, the right wing insists on adhering to voodoo economics and some sort of weird 1950's fantasy view of an America that never really was. Until that changes, they are doomed to become ever more isolated, talking among themselves as the rest of the Country moves on, only mentioning them in the context of a joke.
