“I’m fairly confident that he will be defeated, Mr. Trump will be defeated, in the election. And the next morning, a lot of Republicans will say, Trump? I don’t recognize the name. They’ll get over this fairly fast,” Will said on MSNBC.

“Our parties are very durable,” he said. “Our two parties have formulated the political competition in this country since the Republicans first ran a presidential ticket in 1856. The Republican party will survive. What the Republican party needs like we parents say when dealing with an intractable child, it needs a timeout, and I think they’re going to get one.”