re: #27 KGxvi

Doubtful. Like a bad case of herpes, they’ll come back again and again… usually at inopportune times. In fact, the way things are going, I suspect the Golden Elephant Cult is going to be all that’s left of the Republican Party in 2021 - regardless of who takes the oath of office in January.

The politically active social conservatives, especially the fundamentalists, are likely never going to go away and they’ll always play an outsized role in the Republican Party because we have a de facto two party system.

If so, that dooms the Republican Party. and a successor will appear. It has happened before, though not in a very long time. As Joe Bacon says, they will eventually wind up in an insignificant niche outside a secular society.