Leonard Pitts wrote an opinion invoking the immolation of the Republican party for what it has become, a non-functioning destructive force in this country.  That is not what the Republican party was when Eisenhower was President.   Leonard wrote: "...it has everything to do with the party's willing and expedient embrace of crazy." Leahttps://www.adn.com/opinions/national-opinions/2016/10/30/gop-deserves-nuclear-option/