It appears the Republican Party is irrevocably split.
Yes, but the truth is that is has been for awhile. The Establishment has made it plain that they wanted to rid the party of Christian Conservatives and TEA Party types. Mitch McConnell even went so far as to say that we needed to be "punched in the nose" and made to sit down and shut up. Rules have been adopted to make any kind of 'takeover' by Conservative freshman, an impossibility, while the party welcomed in a gift in the shape of a giant horse's ass from the Clintons that is summarily bringing down what was left of any possible opposition to Her Thighness. Giving the Ruling Class what it actually wanted in the first place, but not enough to win a general election ever again.
It is not lost on Conservatives that the party not only left us, but loathes us and holds us in contempt while they consider the Democrat Left 'colleagues'. They handed Obama a dictatorship and passed nearly his entire agenda and did nothing to stop his unConstitutional dictates and overreaches. They are now part and parcel of the lawless regime that rules us.
There is no possible reconciliation with a party that hates your core and holds you in the kind of contempt that the GOP Establishment does.
If the patrons of TOS are any example, they hate conservative Pubbies as well as old style moderates. Cruz is universally reviled on FR. I can't think of one other big name Pubbie they like. I would assume there are millions of Pubbies like them who have eschewed conservatism for Trumpism.
I've even read some of their most vocal militants ridiculing any reference to the Constitution itself, espousing the virtues of Trumpism instead as being "what is needed to save the republic". An absurdity on it's face.
So how is it going to be possible to for the new populist/nationalist-minded Pubbies to reconcile with conservative Pubbies? I just can't see it happening.
No, it's never going to happen because they have declared us traitors and enemies and it is apparent we no longer stand on any common ground whatsoever.
Trump screwed the future of the Republican Party as a conservative vehicle but good. What comes next, I don't know.
We suffered a velvet coup in 2012, and no one wanted to believe it. Most still refuse to see it. What comes next is what happens when all totalitarian dictatorships have co-opted or eliminated their political opposition and have complete control of society.
