A certain version of the Republican party ended in 2015, and if the base voters are saying what they mean, it's never coming back. https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/think-of-trumps-election-as-year-zero
You Have to Think of Trump’s Election as Year Zero

Because Republican voters say they don’t want any part of a Republican party that looks anything like it did before 2016.

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@bulwarkonline you continue to pretend that Trump is an aberration instead of the culmination of decades of dog whistling to racists and pandering to religious nuts.