Their must be a lot of "Dales" & "Monsters" in the Kuhner Country audience ( WRKO, 680am Boston 12 to 3 pm daily ). Listening now for over a year I could hear their angst this time last year and I knew something was up the people of MA & NH had had it.
I met a "Monster" in 2010 working within a Campaign. She was working for an Under-Secretary for a Dept I will not name during the Reagan years. She left politics completely ( she couldn't stand the Bushes ) she was that disgusted, and came back for this gent that was Tea Party and a Reaganite in his Soul.
IMHO Dale is right, and Kristol, Krauthammer, Romney, Ryan, etc etc are all in denial or bargain or are in one of the other 5 stages of grief as they wrap their heads around the fact that the great unwashed ( who Rush warned us they can't stand ) they them to metaphorically to "Blank Off" to use a Kuhnerism with their support of Trump.
Watch in a month or two, the Sultans of Smart out of DC will steal the Monster phrase and it will all the rage amongst the chattering class on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows...