[Mariner]

First, the GOP must die.

Everything else comes after that.

[Rodamala]

SCENARIO 1) If Trump doesn't win the nomination it is the end of the Republican Party.

SCENARIO 2) If Trump does win the nomination it is the end of the Republican Party.

Either scenario WORKS FOR ME.

[MichaelCorleone]

About time I read something positive out of the press.

[Bayard]

GOPE! Whaw, Good God Yaw! Whadd’is it good for Absolutely Nothin!

[60Gunner]

"Trump is a disruptor of the most lethal sort. His blunt language is shattering the brittle framework of GOP nostrums that forever promise things they don’t deliver. He is revealing the basic discordance between party leaders and rank and file."

And I, for one, and loving every bit of it. The GOPe beast cannot die too soon.

But it's also telling that for all the columnist's bluster, what he does not say is that the Dems have no answer for Trump, either. Both parties are powerless to do anything about Trump, for one good reason: He echoes the sentiments of most Americans. And most Americans are tired of being shouted down by both parties as being racist, homophobes, or sexist for wanting the Constitution to be followed by our "representative government."

But Trump's presence in this race is accomplishing another, even more useful thing: He's causing all of the traitorous GOPe quislings to out themselves. This will be useful for us voters in that we will know exactly who to frog march into history.

[JimSEA]

What follows the collapse of the GOP is an authoritarian one party dictatorship combining the autocratic progressives and potentially violent special interests based on race, sexuality and anti capitalism.

[yuleeyahoo]

The GOP died when it decided to live in the Bush’s.

[Uncle Miltie]

RINOs / GOPe EARNED TRUMP!

I prefer Cruz, but someone has to kick their A$$!

[Uncle Miltie]

The author doesn’t understand that the GOP is at war with actual Conservatism.

[RightOnTheBorder]

Trump is a symptom of the demise of the GOP, not the cause. What all the million dollar consultants fail to see, but the lowly bloggers get perfectly is that the base despises the leadership to the point it is willing to accept a candidate of questionable ideology as long as he is willing to destroy the powers that be.

[nathanbedford]

I would like to say that this implosion will be good for the party, and good for real conservatives and good for the nation. And it might. Or it may be a lurch into the rank nativism that is gaining strength in Europe.

A Handy Glossary to Unpack the Meaning Of the Above

Nativism: when conservatives defend themselves against politics by immigration.

Rank Nativism: when conservatives really mean it.

Conservative: racist.

Racist: a person who is winning an argument with a liberal.

[Teacher317]

Yes, Trump does mean the end of the GOP

Lefties and Conservatives both say "GOOD!!!!!!"

[Sir Napsalot]

Re: GOP

“He’s dead, Jim”

Every one of us came to (will come to) that painful place, some years earlier than others. Each has a different trigger.

[tumblindice]

Be careful what you wish for WashCompost.

You may have found neo-cons and `moderate’ GOPers distasteful, but you’re gonna hate what replaces them .... and that would be hardcore, extreme, arch, ultra-right, `take-no-prisoners’-hard-a**e*-who-can’t-`work-with-you’-because-we-can’t-stand-you conservatives.

Like us.

[ConservativeMind]

If this is possible, I say Trump has done the country the most wonderful of services!

[Political Junkie Too]

The truth is that the GOP has been on this glidepath ever since the Trent Lott power-sharing deal with Democrats after Jim Jeffords switched sides. Democrats learned that Republicans will agree to ANYTHING if pressured enough, and they haven't looked back ever since.

-PJ

[ForYourChildren]

“The GOP has been a rickety, unsustainable contraption of policy prescriptions that don’t add up, don’t really represent the coalition’s actual members, and is based on a backward-looking set of views appealing to an ever-shrinking demographic. It has been held together this long with an ever-more-obfuscatory confabulation of misdirection, packaged in buzzwords and amped with anger. It was overdue to come unglued.”

Pretty much nails it.

[ConservativeMind]

Why doesn’t this writer say such complimentary words about Cruz?

[Norseman]

It’s getting to be quite the echo chamber in here...disappointing, although I suspect those of in here who still understand that it’s Dem policies and Dem politicians who are doing their utmost to mess up America are just sitting back and watching this play out.

[discostu]

For a dying party they sure got a lot of seats in Congress. Actually I think both parties could be dying, except they’ll come back. They have too much inertia to really die, they’ll just thrash around a bit and get reborn as something else.

[bgill]

The GOP died 8 or 10 years ago.