The collapse of the GOP is going to cost us dearly.
Trump should have renounced the GOP by July of 2017 at the latest. He was very foolish to think the GOP could ever have been a vehicle for MAGA, when the state of America that got him elected was substantially their fault.
The GOP is the only other viable nation-wide party. It holds out hope to its base that it will end the madness that the Dems have wrought on this country. But secretly, it sympathizes with the Dems and ultimately refuses to end the nation’s leftward march into oblivion.
With the election of Trump and his repudiation by the GOP leadership, the truth is in the open that the GOP establishment are largely sympathizers for the D-Team. It can’t be business as usual going forward because the GOP base will no longer drink the kool-aid their leadership put before them. The GOP establishment must follow Trump’s example and keep its promises to uphold the values of the base that supports it or it will be broken as a nation-wide party.
...I suppose this is a roundabout way of agreeing with you about the state of affairs. I just think it’s a mistake for Trump to go to war with the party. Trump is ready to work with anyone who works with him. He heads the party, so the party leadership should be the ones to work with him. It they persist with an “orange man bad” perspective, they’ll proudly walk themselves over a cliff on their own without Trump having to encourage them with renouncing the party.