"The Republican party no longer exists. MAGA is the party now."

[Joe Republic]

This is hardly breaking news, but sure, let the usurpers gloat once again.

If millions of people want to reshape a 169-year old institution into the incoherent vision of a rambling sociopath, that's on them.  The question is what happens in the next few years, when the cult leader himself is finally shielded from public view to preserve any remaining personal dignity and eventually croaks.

I expect we'll all have to suffer through a few decades of intra-party competing extrapolations of "What Would Donald Do?", and "I'm the second coming of Donald!" "No I am!"  Just like we used to hear it about Ronald Reagan, right up until 2016.  The difference being that at least Reagan had some admirable personal qualities that his successors could aspire to emulate; Trump's imitators for the next several years are all going to compete to see who can be the most utterly awful human beings.

[Joe Republic]

The idea of a "traditional" or "sane" Republican is a fake unicorn invented by D hacks so they can constantly move the goalposts and paint every GOP nominee as somehow worse than the last.  In only 10-20 years, y'all will be begging to have Trump back LOL   

There's no need for goalpost shifting or crocodile tears.  You guys really do keep finding the absolute worst people to lead your party, and then somehow dig down even deeper for the next one!  It’s amazing.