...every sixty years or so.  Heck they were the party of Lincoln when Democrats were proud to call themselves "know-nothings".   After sixty years of White House ownership they had morphed into the party of Northeast merchantile elitists.  Finally they found the only antidote to FDR and liberalism was to embrace southern bigotry and evangelistic hypocrisy.  for the past thirty years they have deluded themselves that their alliance to this lunatic fringe is a necessary nuisance but now that the nutjobs have taken over the assylum there party is on the verge of a civil war.