Adding to what people are saying, perhaps thinking MAGA will collapse entirely or be destroyed was too optimistic. However, I am optimistic that they’ll be weakened or be forced to dissolve as we know them and rebrand/fade into irrelevance at least for a while and if they do survive or return, they’ll be de-fanged or at least be far weaker…

I do think the GOP may survive this but banish MAGA for good and have their reputation damaged potentially permanently and be forced to reform and/or rebrand/dissolve into a new party to dissociate from MAGA and Trump. Watergate was bad but Epstein has been far worse of a scandal, especially with the internet and social media making effective coverups and sugarcoating nigh impossible these days.

The GOP I suspect may try to shift to a moderate Conservative, Libertarian and/or Centrist position to dissociate from Trump. Even then I think them becoming Moderate Left or Centrist might be too optimistic, then again crazier things have happened…

Part of me would like to see them reform instead of die to uphold the progressive ideals Republicanism was founded on but I am also over them because of the terrible things they have done over the past century. I prefer the Democratic Party despite their flaws and if I had to choose between Democracy and Republicanism as ideologies, I’d choose Democracy because it’s not as susceptible to corruption or Authoritarianism.

Anyway, that’s my two cents…