The Republican base has been dying for a guy like this to come along. This who they’ve always been. And if you don’t toe his line, you’re out. Primaried, destroyed.

Would that our party played to the base the way he has.

This is a true cult. It isn’t hyperbole. They’ll never blame him for any of the problems that arise. It’ll always be someone else’s fault. He has these people trained like seals.

Trump is the product of the Christo-fascist, racist, bigoted, frightened, ignorant, and hateful party the GOP as been for at least the last 50 years.

This year and next represent the culmination of 60 years' worth of Republican strategy to undo the New Deal and everything decent that followed from it. Trump is the Anti-Christ, the Anti-Carter, and the Anti-FDR all rolled into one loathsome slithering package of immensely irresponsible power. Watch as the 14th Amendment gets shredded to pieces, along with any caselaw that used it as precedent. We're about to lose most of the progress from the 20th century, some from the 19th, and we'll be lucky if Trump doesn't gift himself a third term. Republican billionaires outright own the mass media, they're working on owning all the social media, they own the means of distribution for cryptocurrency, and tech like AI and quantum computing will reach maturity under their dominance.

If that's political death, then Democrats should try some -- oh wait, it isn't and we already have.

Anyhow, that's the way it seems to me.

But Reagan took a party that was generally conservative on economic issues but supported the welfare state and completely dismantled everything progressive about the old guard Republican Party. Similarly, we've seen that with Trump.

Or rather he's shown them for who they really are.

resurrected after Trump.

Seems to me it would have to be re-invented, but I don't see Big Money going along with that concept.

William F. Buckley is now a quaint memory.

but I get your point.

who still has a soul to exit that "Party" and make a different one, or join an opposing Party. While there has been a fistful of decent Repugs left over, they can't sustain their humanity by caucusing with the dregs any longer. The time has come. There's nothing more they can do to turn their Party around. It's toast.