... a riot, I predict a riot ! (great song)
The Republican party allowed themselves to be taken over. They cheered the support of people who were increasingly militant and extreme - the alt-right, the tea party etc... Like any extreme group, they like to try and claim it's really a grass-roots movement and they represent the will of the people instead of trying to push their will on the people.
One of the chief cheer-leaders was Trump. Birther-commander in-chief. He's surrounded himself with alt-right reprobates and appeals to the basket of deplorables in society.
Thankfully, it looks like he's going to go down in flames at the election and the already-elected officials in congress and the senate now want to distance themselves from him to save themselves. Too little, too late - the rot set in a decade+ ago, Trump is just the manifestation of what was started. Others are all on-board the Trump-Train (wreck) even though it means he contradicts every principle they claim to hold in the past - they just want power and he's a voice for their prejudice, they love him because he's a misogynistic xenophobic bigot who says it out loud, not in spite of it.
So what happens on day 1 of the Clinton presidency?
Does anyone, republicans included, think that Trump will wave the world of politics goodbye? He likes the rallies and applause and having the mic to talk his nonsense and I don't think he's going to give it up (plus there's poor schmucks donating money to him). So where does that leave the GoP? I don't think the two groups can or will get along.
I think a split is inevitable. You will have the Libertarian-party traditional conservative types and, well, the basket cases. I wonder which group is going to get the name and the stuffed elephant when the divorce happens?
For any of the republicans out there - which group do you join?