Yeah, depressing, but hope springs eternal, FRiend!
Sadly, the RINO/CINO squishes busily engineering yet another sadly inevitable (and yet, wholly avoidable) electoral curb-stomping for the Republican party, four years later, have only managed to render it that much more tellingly relevant, rather than less.
Some folks, it seems, not only never do learn... but take a peculiar, stiff-necked sort of pride in steadfastly REFUSING to do so.