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Well exactly but who’s going to kick them out? Trump in his second term? Was that the real fear? But how in practical terms could Donald Trump assume control of the Republican Party?

I don’t follow the party that closely but I assume it has an elected executive and any member could run for positions at regular intervals?

So how do ordinary, ethical American conservatives replace the swamp creatures who apparently run the party now?

Also to all those who say, too little too late, we’re going into a socialist dictatorship — I know, I live in one myself. Gotta try everything you’re free to try for as long as you’re free to try it. North American liberals don’t do repression very well, they are too faint-hearted, this is why they love violent blacks and Islamists, because there are people who actually will kill their political opponents for them. Except for a few hardball Antifa types, most limousine liberals are soy boys and what I call talk-all-day girls who would never even visualize themselves as goons. They will try to legislate people into a dictatorship, it’s a process that can never quite reach its conclusion because the process itself is subtly opposed to its own ends. This is why Soviet communism failed in the 1980s, Gorbachev had the brainstorm of thinking, hey I can get people to like communism and vote for it willingly. Yeah sure, but there was still nothing in the stores after he famously invented glasnost and perestroika. These things actually meant nothing.

In 1988 I attended a speech given in Toronto by Georgi Arbatov, a close colleague of Gorbachev. He droned on about the wonders of perestroika and glasnost for about an hour but eventually factions of anti-communists filling the lecture hall shouted him off the stage. I happened to wander past him and a small entourage at a point where the lecture hall had almost emptied out and the crowd had joined various shouting factions outside (this was in the days of the failed Soviet war in Afghanistan so the Northern Alliance people were there in force, they almost beat me up because they thought as a young bearded white man I must surely be a Russian communist, luckily I had some brochures about freeing political prisoners with me).

So I could see Arbatov was deflated. He had been sent to North America to whip up friendly support for liberal communism as Gorbachev thought he was creating. All he wanted was to establish that communism could work. He could see that nobody bought that argument. Yet in fact lots of people did buy that argument, not because he made it, but because thousands of college professors and media talking heads made it, to vulnerable and essentially stupid young liberals who figured Cuba was a better place to live than Canada or America.

They never figured out why boats only went in one direction between Cuba and Florida.