Like many of us, Thomas Friedman is hoping that the battle between Trump’s reactionary crazies and the rest of the GOP will transform the latter into a responsible center-right party. It would be a Christmas miracle, to be sure. Is it likely?
Let’s put it this way: even if you take the Reactionary faction completely out of the picture, which is clearly impossible, the GOP would be led by a man who ruthlessly and single-mindedly pursues his goals of tax cuts and deregulation for his donors and power for himself regardless of the interests of the American people as a whole. Does that sound like promising material for a responsible center-right party to you?
Nevertheless, we can dream. The last Christmas miracle was 2020 years ago. Maybe we’re overdue.