The ultimate political flip-flop

For everyone who has felt like they didn't leave the Republican party, it left them, here's why you feel that way:

...over the past half-century, the two parties completely switched roles, with the G.O.P. turning into rebels and the Democrats defending the status quo.

The Big Flip

It is true: the Republicans are the wild-eyed revolutionaries of today, seeking to tear down the tawdry machinery of state and replace it with pure, pristine Utopia.