Wagon

When you hitch your wagon to an erratic horse like Trump heading towards a cliff, you need to question why you did so in the first place. The problem is the GOP is stuck because having courted all the fringe lunatics and the most poorly educated that largely makes up their base, you cannot afford to bite the hand that feeds you.

Here is where having only a two party system gets you into trouble in that you are held captive to it. The now irrational electoral college also does not help matters and hampers more progressive states from advancing agendas that will help the country as a whole. Thus any vote outside of either party becomes a wasted one.

Trump wasn't the cause of the problem as he's much too stupid  but instead an agent provocateur which exposed the weaknesses and his downfall will likely take an aging and policy-devoid party down with him. What then happens to repair the damage to the national fabric will remain to be seen as society moves beyond a structure that conservatives are desperately trying to keep together with scotch tape.

It's easier for me to understand now how societies implode from within as infighting and discord work to expand the cracks in the foundation and destroy confidence in the system which governs everything. People can see the unfairness more readily than ever.

It can happen so fast.