Believe it or not, I don’t want the Republican Party to fail. I want it to succeed as a reality-based institution.

Yes. If the Democratic party has no credible opposition there's room to abuse the monopoly of power. Competition makes things better. It keeps groups accountable.

It also ensures change in moderation.

Unfortunately the state of our environment requires quick, radical change.

Unfortunately true
Buut thats because right wing hasnt been budging on this for far too long, so the change will only get more expensive

Eventually we're going to have to stop counting the financial costs.

agreed

I think it's more likely that Qanon is true than it is that the GOP can be reformed.

Humpty Dumpty absolutely cannot be put together again.

Hah. It’s true that organizations that have fallen into as deep of a rut as the GOP have a tremendously difficult time reforming. Inertia tends to carry the ship forward until it runs aground. Like the Soviet Union of the 1970s-80s.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/618132/

But, the chances that top-level Democrats raped and drank the blood of children in the basement of a D.C. pizza parlor that doesn’t even *have* a basement are nil. Absolutely nil.

So, chances of the GOP reforming are at least better than that.

And I really do hope the Republican Party pulls it together. Really, I do. Because our Republic can’t thrive or even survive with half of the country living in la-la land.

Let me put it this way:

https://www.chicoer.com/2020/12/16/letter-time-to-outlaw-the-republican-party/

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/ex-republican-operative-steve-schmidt-the-party-of-trump-must-be-obliterated-annihilated-destroyed-667008/

Background:

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/capitol-riot-trump-lindsey-graham-republicans-helen-ubinas-20210108.html

There's no rehabilitating Trump's reputation, that's for sure. The GOP needs to do a lot of soul-searching.

The GOP needs to be dismantled.