Several things will have to happen in order to save the GOP:

Responsible people will have to run for - and win - school board elections, keeping the theocrats off school boards so this issue won’t weigh down the Republicans.

Responsible people will have to write many letters to many elected Republicans urging them to get back to their alleged principles and uphold the First Amendment and remind them that we are a Constitutional Republic, not a theocracy.

A charismatic, strong leader will have to take control of the Republican Party from within and seer it away from the cliff the theocrats are determined to take it over.

Republicans of all stripes have to be reminded over and over again that people can be moral without religion, and that religion does not necessarily make a person moral. And for those who want to accept religion as their moral compass, they need to be told that believing in the scientifically wrong 6,000 year old Earth and Universe has NOTHING whatsoever to do with morality. Likewise, they need to be told and come to accept that believing in the fact of evolution is not immoral.

Until all of these things start happening on a decent scale, the Republicans will continue to lose ground to the Democrats. And the Democrats will make damn sure to structure the laws keeping the down-and-out Republicans from ever again rising to any prominence on a national scale while also keeping any third party from taking the place of the Republican’s.