Donald Trump is starting at the farthest end of the spectrum on a major issue and, the moment he sits down at the table, negotiating toward the middle will begin. There will be no wall. There will be nothing to make Mexico pay for. There will be no dealing with China. They are all empty promises spoken in order to gain support from a morally outraged base.

The Republican Party has only itself to blame for this chaos, but more than that, it is doing absolutely nothing to put an end to it. There is no indication that there is anything learned from this. And so, their chance to take over the White House is slipping away because they don’t get just how badly they’ve screwed up. They will blame the base, a base they’ve alienated for so long that there is not trust being either group, and they will continue doing what they do.

Because of this, we stand a chance of there being no Republican in the general election for president. I’ve long resisted the idea of a third party, but if that is the scenario we face, I’ll gladly jump ship to something I can believe in again.