As a politician, Trump’s life goal is essentially to destroy the Republican Party and rebuild it as the Party of Trump. And so, of course, the Republican Party handed him a crucial weapon in this fight. For free!

It’s worth really considering the monumental stupidity of this. Trump will, personally, own the voter file that the RNC gave him, for free — in exchange for cash that didn’t come out of his pocket and that will be burnt after November anyway. It turns out Trump can negotiate deals after all. And that if the RNC’s brain was a GIF, it would probably be an empty windswept tundra.

I mean, they’re even patting themselves on the back! “This is exactly what the party needed the RNC to do — building assets and infrastructure and the nominee gets to benefit from it,” RNC Chief Digital Officer Gerrit Lansing told Businessweek. Yeah, this is exactly what the RNC needed to do, buddy.

This is worth highlighting on its own, for what it says about Trump (he’s never going away), and the RNC (burn it all down), but there’s also a broader point here.