I am sorry, Serge, but that idyllic marriage of pseudo-patriotism and closet racism/fascism the republican party was before Trump came along is highly, highly unlikely to ever go back to what it used to be. Too much paste is out of the tube, too much of the genie is out of the bottle now. For decades the RP managed to keep the extreme electorat they picked up during the realignment of the 60s (Southern Strategy) under wraps aka in the closet. The party leaders made a strategic mistake to rile them up, however, and then Trump swooped in showed these extreme elements of the electorate that it was perfectly OK to come out in the open and not hide anymore. That's the paste that's out of the tube ...
Can you think of what/who/why pushed the republican leadership to rile up the extreme portion of the troops, so to speak, basically prepping them up for Trump to come in and conquer their minds with his demagoguery? It was something that happened in the years before Trump's takeover of the RP, something without which, I would argue, maybe none of the clusterfuckery we are seeing now would have happened in the first place.
Anyways, a brilliant mind once said:
“We are, whether we like it or not, the party of lower-income, lower-education white people, and I have been saying for a long time that we need to offer those people SOMETHING (and hell, maybe even expand our appeal to working-class black people in the process) or a demagogue would. We are now at that point. Trump is the fruit of the party’s collective neglect.”
That brilliant mind predicted all of this that is unfolding and has been unfolding in American politics for the better part of the past decade. Anybody familiar who comes to mind?
Funny thing is, this same brilliant mind has positioned himself to take over from Mr. Orange once he gets popped and be the new face of the MAGA movement. And just like Trump, he doesn't believe a single word he is saying.
Anyways, my best guess is this whole thing ends with a 3-party system and a brand new phase of American political life, a new political realignment, of sorts, not unlike the one from the 1960s, which started this process, in the first place.