News Kasich: Republican Party is mired in the 1950s and ignores today’s America at its peril January 14, 2019 John R. Kasich, Opinion contributor Comments Off on Kasich: Republican Party is mired in the 1950s and ignores today’s America at its peril Republicans need to break their own self-made mold of being naysayers instead of doers. It means designing solutions that actually solve problems.