>He's not a Republican, he's... you know that brain-replacing fungus
>that makes dying ants act against antly interests so as to create
>opportunities for the fungus to infest further ants? He's that.
>Actual Republicans are the ants.

I would have to disagree with you on that one, Ben.

Trump didn't trick and stunt his way into power. He won the Republican nomination in a walk, with an enormously strong plurality, and evidence is strong that even in a more winnowed field he'd have won outright majorities. These were rank-and-file Republicans, the people you meet on the street and work alongside and are related to, and they said "Trump!"

Then when he was the nominee, basically every Republican leader in active politics endorsed him. A tiny handful tried to thread the needle, like Kelly Ayotte's shameful and cowardly "I'm not endorsing Donald Trump, I'm just saying you should vote for him" two-step, but they basically accepted him as legitimate.

He won office on the backs of the sixty million-ish mostly Republicans who voted him in.

Trump is a Republican. The Republican Party loves him, endorses him, and is enthusiastic for him. Even your states own Susan Collins, beloved as a "moderate" figure within the Party, will vote enthusiastically for the witches brew he will send to Congress and the Federalist Society hacks he will send to the Supreme Court.

This has been a long time coming. The transformation of the Republican Party that began in 1964 is largely complete. The Republicanism of Dwight Eisenhower, of John Chafee, of Chris Shays and Nelson Rockefeller and even Bill Weld, is dead. This is the party of Newt Gingrich, Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, Kris Kobach, and Hans von Spakovsky. It's an inchoate scream of rage made manifest.

There is no ant.

There is only the fungus.

-Merc
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