happen? i think that there was sort of two strands to the republican party in post world twa toameri. there was a normal strand and joe mccarthy strand that was racist, paranoid, non-governing and a lot of us in the party, particularly those in george bush s conservatism, we felt we were the dominant gene and this dark side was the recessive gene. i don t know a conclusion to come to but that was wrong. the republican party is what the e are pub can party wants to do. it s comfortable being an autocrat tgrievance. the first time in modern politics, a party platform was whatever donald trump wanted it to be. and that s how autocracy works.