"Ironically, it was his very struggle against the forces at the base of the dam that killed him.  He didn't know that the only way out was counterintuitive.  If he hadn't tried to keep his head above water, but instead dived down to where the current flowed downstream, he would have survived."  Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline

The same could be said for the Republican Party.  

Music, These Open Roads Are Calling, by Joshua Spacht, Soundstripe