It started with Mitt Romney and Donald Trump erupting into a civil war. It ended with Trump bragging about the size of his penis and shouting back and forth with “Little Marco” Rubio and “Lying Ted” Cruz, then pledging to support the Republican nominee no matter what in the last question, before immediately starting to wiggle out of that pledge in a post-debate interview conducted before he’d even left the stage. Not to mention Trump’s insistence that he could get the military to commit war crimes by sheer force of will.

On the liberal-leaning Huffington Post, the banner headline Thursday night was COCK FIGHT…

“How many more of these do we have to sit through? Asking for a friend. #GOPdebate,” Hillary Clinton tweeted, with a GIF of her rubbing her temples during one of her appearances in front of Congress. It got retweeted nearly 7,000 times…

“You want to quote me as saying ‘hahahahahahaha’?” said Austan Goolsbee, who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers during President Barack Obama’s first term…

Thursday was the collapse of a political party in real time: Its 2012 nominee trying desperately to stop the person who’s looking more and more like the 2016 nominee, all while 2008 nominee John McCain bounced from saying he’d support Trump as the nominee just Wednesday to issuing a statement on Thursday saying he shared Romney’s concerns — and then later that day clarifying that he’d still support Trump.