Let's discuss where the author goes wrong. First, the GOP is a club not a political party and couldn't organize a prom if it had too, much less organize a fear campaign involving Ebola, ISIS and immigrants (invaders).
Second, the fear created had nothing whatsoever to do with the GOP. On Ebola the rank incompetence, deadly political correctness and setting Africa economies ahead of America were all products of the Obama Administration and incessantly broadcast by the Obama-supporting media. The GOP was no where to be found.
ISIS conducted a blitzkrieg into Iraq from the northern border to the outskirts of Baghdad. Territory painfully gained under Bush, the surge and the Anbar Awakening. All of this was given up by Imam Obama to Islam. Again, the GOP was no where.
Immigration, falsely described, because we are dealing with people, who have no intention of becoming Americans, its more like bringing their countries into America. Obama orchestrated a Children's Crusade to bring tens of thousands of children (MS-13) members into the US as part of his cynical plan of transforming America into a 3rd world hellhole. Now, ordinary Americans went out there protesting this, but the GOP did nothing, until the lame-duck session, when it funded Obama's "immigration" plans.
The GOP is a club for its members. They represent no one but themselves. As long as they get there's, screw everyone else.
That said, it would seem that there is room in America for a new party reminiscent of the old Whig slogan that was both warning and promise: "THE GOVERNMENT WILL TAKE CAFE OF ITS OWN INTEREST ONLY. WE WILL TAKE CARE OF THE GOVERNMENT. "
You might have added that the quote about Democrats being in a "defensive crouch" seems to be a joke, as long as Obama keeps on swinging from all directions like a thugpunk administering a street beatdown. He owns the headlines and he is using his phone and his pen to suck all the air out of the room like Slick used to do. It's the same kind of politica, SSDD.