Cheechako posted an interesting piece about how “moderate” Republicans are starting to mutter about the only way to save the GOP would be to smack it across the nose by voting against all GOP candidates, up and down the board, until it renounces Trump.

My take:

This may work. The outcome I long predicted for Trump was that he would succumb to his own overweening ego and break away into a 3rd party, splitting the Batshit Crazy from the Smart But Evil.

If he suffers a stinging defeat this fall - as in, a historic 100-seat swing in the House - his ego will not allow him to acknowledge that it was HIS fault. Thus, he will lash about for someone to blame.

And he will settle on the GOP. Yes. Yes! That will be it! Must have been those dirty little backstabbers, no sufficiently loyal, always yammering on about decency and integrity and duty and honor. As if those things mattered! Time to show them. Time to launch the Trump Party …