The Palin Collapse and GOP Leninism

Tom Shaller at 538.com has an insightful post stating why he doesn’t think a Palin Presidential campaign is in the offing.

Given the current dynamics within the GOP,  I’m somewhat underwhelmed given the remaining frontrunners:

I think that the GOP is going into a terminal Maoist phase, where anything approaching empiricism – or traditional conservatism, for that matter – is destroyed within the party by demagogic internal elites.

While the neocons are an easy target, they are more a symptom than the disease.  The modern Republican Party is a Leninist organization, with Neoconservatives serving as their propaganda arm.

“Leninist” is used so often as anti-Republican spin by liberals and the Left, that it might not have occurred to them that it might be literally true.

And Leninist systems are inherently auto-corrupting…

Thus we see Huckabee devolving from populist Christian conservatism to Religious Right heresy, and Romney becoming even more a flavor-of-the-day opportunist.  And the public face of the Republican Party is becoming totally detached from reality, having turned into a compendium of conspiracy theories.

This dynamic is too dangerous for Democrats to indulge themselves in gloating.