Lotta truth in this, from Steve M.:
Members of the right-wing rank-and-file just want someone or something to hate, and they’re not picky: Show them a clip of George W. Bush standing on the 9/11 rubble with a bullhorn and they’ll cheer. Show them a clip of Trump denouncing W for lying about Iraq WMDs and they’ll cheer. They don’t know what they believe. They just want enemies. They want an angry champion who seems conservative and who appears to have the strength to kick the asses of those enemies, whoever the hell they are this week.
I still see a Republican crack-up, though. It’s not that I don’t think the party isn’t elastic enough to snap back into form after the Trump supertanker passes through the channel and re-docks at his gaudy Tower at 725 Fifth Avenue. It’s just that the party is going to be a lot smaller and it won’t be able to use all its weapons effectively anymore.
Trump has been a very important component to what’s going on, but he had nothing to do with the demise of Eric Cantor or John Boehner, and I don’t think Jeb Bush would have won even if Trump hadn’t entered the race. There’s been a reckoning coming for a while now. Trump didn’t start it, and it won’t be finished when he’s gone.
