The GOPe needs to be taken down, by hook or by crook. My hope is DeSantis will help in that effort, just as Reagan worked to get rid of the Rockefeller Republicans as California governor. But it will take time.
But they never go away; they hide until the time is right to strike the party again. Look at the Republican governors in California after Reagan, and the Republican presidential nominees between Reagan and Trump.
The next time, instead of letting these SOBs slither under a rock and wait, we need to blow up the rock.