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Or the Trump Party (whatever it's called) may break away

With the right alliances, the Trump Party will be the Republican Party. There's nothing wrong with being on all of the ballots and having an infrastructure. Look how the hippies took over the Democrat Party in the '60s, inheriting a structure built largely by culturally conservative southerners and northern urban lunch pail types, urban Catholics who still believed in their Faith, and working class folks who would happily hit said hippies over the head with their picket signs.

Trump is a fifty year overdue realignment that started with Goldwater and Wallace, started in earnest with Reagan and is at the next phase with someone whose plan is to dismantle the infrastructure installed by the uniparty and to use our military for legitimate national ends. He already managed to host a convention with NO Bushes or Romneys. Half the job is done. If he wins the presidency, the rest will be a mop up operation with the 21st century Gypsy Moths relegated to pest status.

Trump is the leader of the movement, and as Trump is not about having an underlying set of deeply developed principles, the intellectual framework to buttress the Trump approach is a work in progress. Under Reaganism, free trade as a core principle was sacrosanct, even though we did next to no trade with Communist China or the Soviet Union during his terms. That's gone.

While Trump is on board to prune the federal government, he's also on board for big programs and doesn't seem to interested in the distinction between those duties that are best relegated to the states. That's okay for now. Others following in his footsteps can fill in the gaps. Entitlement reform may also be put on the backburner, even as new ones are added (day care subsidies?!). If that's the cost we pay to dump the Bushes, Romneys and the entitled crony set and get a governing coalition of regular Americans to replace them, then so be it.

With the right alliances, the Trump Party will be the Republican Party.

As I pointed out in a Freeper editorial I wrote a few weeks ago (Donald Trump, the Sensible Party and the Silly Parties), the Trump Party indeed needs to operate as a virtual party within the physical Republican Party—at least until this November's election. In step #1 (which is now completed), the (sensible) Trump Party defeats the "silly" factions of the Republican Party in the primary season. In step #2, the Trump Party, augmented by "sensible" Democrats and using the Republican Party's infrastructure, defeats the "silly" remnants of the Democratic Party.

The new question is: After Trump wins the general election, can the virtual Trump Party continue to coexist within the physical Republican Party alongside the Crony Capitalists and the Dominionists without the Republican Party being in a permanent state of civil war. Trillions of dollars are at stake, which will keep the Crony Capitalists' adrenaline levels at maximum. And how to keep the always-enraged Dominionists from trying to force their way into the driver's seat is currently an unsolved problem; though Cruz has demonstrated that is possible to split them off.

If the Trump Party takes over the Republican Party and forces the Crony Capitalist and Dominionist factions to go elsewhere (e.g., take over the Constitution Party), then it is essential that the new Trump/Republican Party permanently grab enough sensible people from the Democrat party to 1) make up for the loss and 2) reduce the size of the Democrat Party.

Excellent analysis. The corrupt Babylon that has been imposed on us was not built in a day or a year (more like 150 years) and the Republic can’t be rebuilt without destroying the corrupt infrastructure. Trump has a lot of experience with demolition. If he really loves the Republic and the Constitution, Cruz would have struck an alliance with Trump rather than ridiculing him in secret donor meetings and pretending to be a friend while stabbing him in the back. He could have shaped the intellectual framework of a pro-American Constitutional revival. Instead, he will at best be a backbencher watching while better men and women do the hard work.