America without Donald Trump as president will be inarguably a more boring place.  Does any honest red-blooded American really want politics to regress to the yawnful status quo ante, when the chief executive didn't dole out daily insults in 280 characters or fewer? For the country of Survivor season 41, hardly.  America will remain more or less intact, albeit prosier, when Trump decamps from Pennsylvania Avenue.  But what of the Republican Party?  The question isn't nearly as interesting to the palace-intrigue slavering public.  Yet it's of imperative consideration for both major parties.  Democrats need to know their enemy; the GOP needs to understand itself. In one week or four more years, Republicans, from party leaders to rank-and-file members to state chairs to precinct captains to the lowliest voter, will have to decide what Trump's lasting influence, if any, will be on the party he's...(Read Full Post)