This is how the Trump era ends...

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10. Former Senator Claire McCaskill just made this point.

Repug victories don't depend on bright red districts and states. They depend on purple swing districts, and this spectacle will turn those people off for a long time. So the question is not just what fringe groups control the repugs; it's also what can the repug party control, going forward.

I think that, following this debacle, repugs will have to find a way to divorce themselves from radical elements and from dump. Otherwise, they'll circle the drain with dross like Don Jr., Hawley, Haley, or some other far-right winger and insurrectionist. To find their way back to a position centrist enough to appeal to swing voters, they have to find candidates who are free of all this stink.