There have been many diaries today about the Republican collapse. Notably, here and here.
These diaries (and the sources they link to) suggest that the causes of the Republican meltdown are scandals, corruption, incompetence, arrogance, American exceptionalism, and the desire to retain power at all costs. I'd like to suggest that those are symptoms of a deeper failure, and that if we don't look to the nature of the Republican decision-making process, we are in danger of repeating their mistakes.
