The GOP is addicted to the “wingnut vote” because they can win with it in Senate, House, Governor, and local government elections. But they need to add a certain amount of sane voters to that base to win the Presidency.

Democrats still owe Lyndon Johnson a debt of gratitude for making them quit cold turkey the addictive white racist vote in the 60s with the intervention of civil rights legislation. They were sweating, shaking, and puking for about 40 years of withdrawal, but getting sober meant that they can now be the official “not that crazy” party of the US.

The GOP will have to have a Johnson of their own, and I can’t imagine who that would be.