Elvis Obama
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Paul Ryan, The Prezes Bush, and a host of other GOP bigs are preferring to stand on the sidelines, rather than participate in a Republican party which has morphed out of recognizability. What will this mean? John McCain is doing a desperate dance, trying to keep Trump at a distance while hedging his bets. What about the other down-ballot races? Will they all run from Trump, if their constituencies aren't fully behind him? What will Trump be able to do, should he get elected, if Ryan and everyone else in the power establishment resists the Trump re-branding of the Republican party? What can they do? They have the party titles, Trump has the voters.
Trump's made his position clear, come to me or get lost. A typically nuanced stance. He wins, of course. A party without constituents isn't worth much. So what's left for the Republican establishment? Can a Paul Ryan merely wait out the four or eight years of a Trump presidency (or best case scenario, a Trump loss) and attempt to reconstitute conservatism after that? To bring back the GOP from the grave? Or will Trump literally re-brand the the GOP as the Trump Party, and run Ivanka after his eight years are up?