This is really evidence that the Republican Party is beyond redemption.
True.
I thought the Tea Party still had a chance of taking over the Republican party from within...
In reality, the Tea Party involved GOP conservatives reaching
outside the party for partners of common conviction to promote conservative governance, to diminish the ability of the political elites of both parties to maintain the "big government"
status quo. That effort failed due to joint efforts, the Democrats using government authority illegally to shut down Tea Party groups, while GOP-e politicians used party power to diminish influence of Tea Party associated elected officials, and to defeat Tea Party candidates.
Trump is the result of the defeat of the Tea Party. The "I'm mad as hell, I've been abused and misused, so I can justify anything you bastards" portion of the GOP, newly empowered with secular humanists, libertarians, disaffected "Reagan Democrats, which is why the Trumpkins sound so much like the Union and Alinsky activists of the 1960's and 1970's. Machiavelli's "the end justifies the means" and Alinsky's "Rules for radicals" were never the mantra of GOP social NOR economic conservatives. However, it is the organizing philosophy of the Trump minority today.
GOP conservatives cannot believe what they hear coming from the Trumpkins, while it's just everyday business to a certain portion of the Tea Partiers. We conservatives look like "deer in the headlights" to the Trumpkins, which just makes them believe all the more in the righteousness and inevitability of their cause.
They will lose, of course, and the GOP will be no more after November. Few will remain attached to the GOP's rotting political corpse after Trump loses 50 states, the Senate, and half the GOP House. The GOP rot was underway in earnest in 2008, though it began as early as 1988 with the election of G.H.W. Bush, and kicked in high gear in 1996 when the GOP backed down from the impeachment of Clinton. Principle was compromised by dribbles and leaps, until the GOP no longer had any legitimacy. Obama was the first result, the Tea Party, the second, and Trump the second. The net effect of the GOP-e defeating the Tea Party was the destruction of the GOP.
Supporting Trump for President in November is meaningless. It won't elect Trump, it won't save the GOP as a viable political party, but it won't stop the GOP from trying. The GOP as a political party is a holed, down by the bow, still running full speed ahead, with it's decks awash. Every action by it's incompetent bridge crew simply accelerates the inevitable.
There is no quick or easy fix, to return the USA to it's conservative moorings. The USA has been run by hard left Democrats for 16 out of the last 24 years, and the progressive dominated bureaucracy and GOP RINO's have compromised the GOP-governed years to the point of insignificance. Elections DO matter, and the GOP loses WHERE significant, leading to the status quo.
The GOP is gone with the WHIGs. The new conservative party is likely not yet formed. Certainly, neither the Libertarians and Constitutional Party are the solution. It will take years, perhaps two generations, to make the transition. On the "bright side", history has taught us that catalysts like a civil war can accelerate the process to as few as four years.
