The GOP civil war has, if anything, intensified. Business groups are now threatening to withhold their financial support. Can the split become permanent? If so, how?
PBPs are transactional; they demand tax cuts, deregulation, freedom from arbitrary governmental interference, and stability. If the Reactionary-driven GOP only offers them electoral losses and chaos, they will flip.
I don’t think we’re there yet, but we’re a lot closer than we were a week ago. I suspect it will take either another round of losses or some outrageous event perpetrated by a right-wing extremist–possibly a murder of a prominent politician or media figure–to seal the deal for the foreseeable future.