At their core, Republicans are gutless followers--and they will follow Donald Trump into the abyss, taking their party with them. For all the nervous braying we are seeing right now, there's no way more than a handful of Republicans will have the balls to defy their masters, and this year will be the end of the Republican Party. After the historic electoral implosion this November, we will be left with probably three distinct pygmy parties in place of the Republican Party, none of which will ever be a force in national politics again: the vulgar racists of the Trump Party; the most flagrantly ignorant closet-cases in the Teabagger Party; and the diseased rump of the unrepentant, unreconstructed former Republican establishment. Much of the former Republican establishment, along with the more reasonable of their voters, will move to their true home in the Democratic Party because that establishment will not want to give up their influence. The best possible next step would be a formation of a new major party in opposition to the Democrats, taking the place on the center-left where the USA has never really had a major political party except possibly for a few minutes during the beginnings of the FDR administration.
This political evolution will be phenomenal for the USA, and it will all be due to Donald Trump. Eventually, when the crazed racist violence of his life is faded and dimmed by time, Trump will be seen as a hero because he finally vanquished one of the world's worst, most dangerous political movements in human history, the Republican Party.
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