The lobbyists' alliance with the dominant wing of the Republican Party is a near-perfect match.
I don't think we've had a time in American history when the dominant wing of a political party was so out of sync with everybody else.
The Republican Party in 2016 is an example of what can happen when the dominant wing fails to address the concerns of the majority.
The women's movement had split into two camps: a less audible and less visible sexual-liberationist wing and a dominant wing that was highly, militantly suspicious of sex.
After winning re-election by running as a liberal Republican, Gov. George E. Pataki moved back to the right today, firmly positioning himself in the dominant wing of his party with a promise to cut spending and oppose higher taxes.
The dominant wing of the Republican Party is increasingly an appendage of the organism — the tail, you might say, though it seems to wag more often from fear than from happiness.
During their confinement they have been in touch regularly with adherents in the universitues, with worker and farmer elements, among them the dominant wing of a pro-Communist peasant movement known as Masaka, which has also undergone a split last year.
The dominant wing of the Republican Party is increasingly an appendage of the organism the tail, you might say, though it seems to wag more often from fear than from happiness.
It permeated what became the dominant wing of the Democratic Party — the "New Democrats". Their jargon included choice, competition, efficiency, and downsizing government; they often competed with Republicans for pro-market credibility.
The first time I talked with Armey, at a Midtown restaurant one morning when he was in New York for a television appearance, I was struck by how estranged he feels from what had been the dominant wing of his party — figures who themselves were social conservatives or who used social issues to energize a base of Republican voters.
"It is sobering to me to be standing here as a senior member of this party telling you from 1976 from 2013 we have the dominant wing in this party which has learnt nothing, and is as mired in the quags and as mired in the stupidity as it was in 1976," he said.
