"I think the damage and the stain on the GOP is potentially a generation long."

[eleny]

Nicole Wallace on MSNBC just now, The 11th Hour.

[Lanius]

1. I hope so

The GOP deserves to go down in flames for pandering to the Far Right for 40+ years.

[eleny]

4. At least as far back as Nixon with his toxic southern strategy

That's my memory.

Wallace said they were drowning in toxicity. The way Trump is doubling down and how the Republicans flip flop over endorsing him.

[Foggyhill]

2. Trump dropping out without sending turds

Against the GOP is their only electoral out and that just diminishes the disaster

Long term they are in a bad bad way, the party will have to split off the trump faction

[saltpoint]

3. When Trump-Pence is trounced on Nov. 8,

the GOP will issue a boilerplate statement suggesting that the party will undertake extensive outreach efforts again to win back support, blah blah blah.

But the sharp and bitter divisions that produced Trump are baked in to their base and their state-by-state apparatus.

Not gonna be easy, Reince.

[spooky3]

5. Maybe, but she should be far more concerned about the future

Of the country if this sociopath is elected.

[rusty quoin]

6. I hope so too, but many thought the same after the Iraq war went to shit.

But the Republicans were rebirthed as tea partiers (At first they called themselves tea baggers).

The republican base has short term memory.

That said, this latest thing is about sex. So maybe it will stick.

[Foggyhill]

7. This is about overt misogyny and bigotry

Women, blacks, minorities, LGBT, educated, the young, they're not diss ape ring

Demography and cultural currents are not on their side
This is like the second chapter of the drama started in1964

[eleny]

9. It's hard to swallow that things can get worse

But here it is, 2016, and they chose a man who is polar opposite to the one in your avatar.

[babylonsister]

8. Good. They own him, need to acknowledge that, and

try to make it better among all those tea baggers. I'll say it again: you reap what you sow.

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. Turned off hispanics and asians bigly