The less loony ones are already going away. They are appearing on MSNBC and confessing their abandonment, some becoming Democrats. A political party can't wrap itself forever around a personality and survive. Republicans signaled their political bankruptcy when they came out of their convention last summer without a platform. That declared they were the party of Donald Trump - whatever he says at any moment is what we say. The fatal logic of this is when Trump is finished the GOP is finished. So it may be. The problem would be less dire if Trump articulated a coherent philosophy, but he doesn't. He stands merely for the magnification of himself.

