They were a top-down rich man's party beloved by miserable skinflints who thought legless men should still pull themselves up by their bootstraps. The Tea Party Archies and religious lunatics will no longer be courted. The police unions will still love them. The NRA, not so much, since rich men don't particularly want a heavily armed population. They got into power in the past by being pro business and strict law'n'order. They'll be the party of good economic times. In bad times, Democrats will always be elected to clean up after them.
I know Trump represents all the devils they made deals with taking over. Either the traditional kingmakers and power brokers will abandon the party to the rabble and take over another splinter party or they'll change the rules so the rabble have no say. In the past, the party has been abandoned to the various devils, which is why we no longer have a Federal Party or a Whig Party.
Something does have to happen. Government by a madman leading a mob is unconscionable and that's what they'll present us with from now on.
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