Sink or Swim... Republicans?

CLR Show 1926. Air Date April 23, 2024. With the passage of the foreign aid bill over the weekend by two thirds of all republicans and all the threats of the clown car republicans to destroy the speakership of Mike Johnson thwarted, republicans have set their unsavory endgame in motion. Donald no longer owns them. But will they still feel compelled to embrace him in an effort to placate a constantly shrinking extreme MAGA base that will cast the functional republican party into an extended diaspora––with unknown effect on the our entire governance system––or take the first painful steps––now––to create a new post-Donald party modeled after some earlier iteration(s) of traditional republicanism?