RationalWiki weighs in on the future of the Republican Party after this poo-fest is over:

So, whoever wins, the Republican party as you know it is over. Finished. Finito. Rove, Ryan, McConnell and the others are done. They have lost the respect of voters because they had the gall to put country over party. So they’re out. It’s now the party of Trump, LaPierre, Palin and LePage. It’s not about conservatism at all. It’s about white nationalism, protectionism, and fascism.[note 1] There’s an undercurrent of real hate in the country and they’ve tapped into it. They can neither know nor accept opposing views, because they believe their failures are the fault of “others”: immigrants, minorities and the PC police. (But “both parties are the same.”)

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