[Starboard]

"Donald Trump didn't "hijack" the GOP permanently, but he did do exactly that to get where he is right now."

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Permanently? Are you parsing now? Why did you BOLD your original comment as if to be emphatic, and why didn't you put 'hijack' in quotes then, but not now? Here is your original comment exactly as it appeared:

No. He played the nomination process perfectly and basically hijacked the GOP.

[Alberta's Child]

He DID hijack the GOP -- for the presidential nomination. But he had no slate of candidates underneath him that could be remotely described as "Deplorable" candidates.

And it seemed like almost everyone who ran for Congress as a "Deplorable" candidate after 2016 turned out to be a nitwit, a phony, or just not an effective, winning candidate (see Lou Barletta in PA as a perfect example of the last type).