For the last decade or so, the press have produced endless handwringing over the rise of President Trump and “MAGA-aligned” Republicans. What they describe as a “hostile takeover” of the Republican Party is indeed alarming, as the GOP refashions itself into something more like a personality cult. On the other side of the aisle, the radical progressive and socialist takeover of the Democratic Party is also alarming. Yet one would hardly know it based on the relatively muted news coverage.