For the first time in years, America’s Grand Old Party has essentially no chance of winning the 2016 presidential election. The Republican Party has long been the bastion of the conservative and right-leaning moderate, a place for a sharing of many reasonable and sometimes, like in cases involving LGBT+ folk, bigoted ideas and policies to flourish. However this election cycle members from the depths of this party have risen up to the forefront of GOP politics, summoned by the current primary poll leader: Donald “I have a great relationship with the blacks” Trump. Trump has, by some unholy force, brought forth and encouraged again the Tea Party scourge this great nation faced some seven years ago during the 2008 presidential race. These ruthlessly bigoted, uninformed, Glenn-Beck-watching open-carriers served as possibly the most polarizing political force to hit the Republican party since the days of the Civil Rights Movement. These right-wing extremists have caused a major rift in the Republican party that today is reopened and widened by the hateful buffoonery of the most orangest white man ever to run for president, with moderate ideals and reason thrown to the wind. Strangely, Trump is not the only candidate whose ideas have developed such divides this election cycle. The outlandish attacks on Muslims, Hispanics, and Transgender individuals come not just from Trump, but his major opponents like Ben Carson and Ted Cruz. Moderate or even center-Republican candidates, such as John Kasich, Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio have been unable to gain traction in the primary, and both Kasich and Bush have been declared dead by analysts on both sides of the ilse. These political shifts have led to a major issue within the Republican party - moderates have a hard time feeling connected to a platform predominately filled with hateful messages and racist overtones. And while Trump and his constituents serve to rip to shreds moderate relations and viciously attack each other in debates, creating divisions within candidates’ potential voter bases, the Democrats are sitting pretty with a narrow field of perfectly likeable and sane-sounding candidates. Hillary Clinton, though appearing to be a strong liberal figure, has strong support across the board, and Bernie Sanders garners enormous support from the youth, a demographic usually enthralled with politics. The Democratic presidential debates are filled with far more attacks on GOP figureheads than quarrels amongst themselves, and while the ideas presented are more liberal than those in recent campaigns, the liberal base is, according to a recent Gallup poll, around 50% larger than it was in 1992. So as Trump seeks to ban Muslims from the United States and build a wall along the entire Mexican border (that he will definitely get Mexico to pay for), the Democrats are snug in a blanket of unmolested liberal ideals, knowing their chances at the Presidency are limited only to whoever wins the primary.