There was a lifting of a veil. To centrists we saw a party of statesmen and a party of petulant children.
This wasn’t democrats vs republicans. It was what’s left of the democratic party vs everybody else. Seeing their actions and tactics as nuts and seriously inappropriate does not make you a republican. It makes you sane.
And this is why it is a disaster - for them.
Really. Are these nitwits fit to govern? No!
The last few people who thought there were still sane Democrats out there learned differently.
Any NeverTrumper who isn’t a complete dead-ender learned that you either hang with the man, warts and all, or be overrun by the barbarian hordes.