[Bookshelf]

There is now a general understanding among Conservatives; it is clear that the Republican Party of 2016 was intellectually bankrupt and the Party leadership was blindly inept. If Trump has done nothing else (and he has done much) he has shed a passel of Republican hangers-on. Perhaps all that is left is to bury once and for all the effete snowflake Republicans and create a new robust Conservative Party. If Trump wins, I predict it will happen just prior to the 2022 elections.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"it is clear that the Republican Party of 2016 was intellectually bankrupt"

And 2012, 2008, 2004, 2000... 1992, for that matter.