The Republican Party that occupies those offices is alive and well, but it is not the GOP that emerged after WWII and functioned as a "big tent" in which terms like "progressive Republican", "moderate R", and even "liberal R" were not oxymorons. The R Party became home for most conservatives, especially after William F. Buckley and National Review helped conservatism to shed its racist and antisemitic baggage; but there was truly room for diversity in the GOP. I note two turning points for the party: a lurch to the right, commencing with the Civil Rights Act (1964) and Voting Rights Act (1965); and a precipitous downward spiral, beginning with the Speakership of Newt Gingrich and accelerating with the rise of the Tea Party, leading if not inevitably then inexorably to Donald Trump and Roy Moore. One cannot draw a straight line from Sen. Bob Taft (Mr. Republican) to Donald Trump; the line goes sharply to the right, and dramatically down. Neither Taft nor Ike would recognize this party.