For years, Republicans managed an exceptional acrobatic act: to mobilize right-wing populist anger and white working-class voters behind a program whose benefits flowed to the economic elites. The operation was supported by large expenditures from the very rich. The assumption was always that the base would get the noise and the elites would get the policy.
The Republican coalition is falling apart, and there may be no way to put it back together again.
from:
How the GOP's Big Tent Turned Into a House of Horrors 
