re: #2 watching you tiny alien kittens are

Ehh…the GOP isn’t going anywhere, it is just going to have to go through a period of readjustment. In time things will get painful enough for them to fully realize that their current path leads to a dead end. By then there also will no longer be any perceived benefit to keeping the crazies in the party anymore.

Meanwhile the crazies may save them the trouble and self-deport themselves from the GOP anyway. You only have to listen to the wingnut diatribes on many of the leading Right Wing sites to realize that there is a lot of exasperation with the GOP in their circle. Talk of moving to a third party is getting a little louder and more common every day.

No, they won’t self-deport. The reason is simple: money. The game as currently rigged gives the GOP a lot of direct and indirect funding. If the party splits only one group gets those assets.

I’m not saying there won’t be a split. I’m saying who “left” is going to be very contentious.