Last summer, I thought this would be the most cleansing, least likely event for the Republican Party.
I’ll quote the penultimate line of that post:
At that point, I thought Jeb would eventually stagger away with the nomination and stumble through a gaffe-filled Romneyesque general election, and I secretly feared Rubio would quietly maneuver himself into the top spot and be a genuinely challenging opponent for Clinton. Little did I know how far the rot in the core of the modern Republican Party had progressed, and how incapable it was of fighting off diseases like Trump and Cruz.