I will give a far more accurate and simple forecast for the future of the Republican Party:
The GOP will jump hard Left... Further abandoning & alienating the Conservative base.
Look for a more liberal bend on abortion, and some tolerance for same-sex marriage to start. Less talk of entitlement reform and a softer stand on immigration reform. Essentially taking an official platform of Democrat - Lite.
And the country will continue to rot.
“The GOP will jump hard Left... Further abandoning & alienating the Conservative base.”
Actually the opposite. The RINOs and the blue dogs have been weeded out and we have in Congress a more sharply divided set of folks.
“Look for a more liberal bend on abortion,”
...at least training on how to get out trouble when discussing rape.
“.. and some tolerance for same-sex marriage to start.”
Its won in Maine for one, so ...