The latest shake-up in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has jolted the Republican establishment out of denial to a new realization: Whatever happens to their nominee in November, Trumpism may well endure as a source of ferment in their party.
Until this week, it had been possible for party elders to convince themselves that Trump might prove to be a passing storm in their ranks rather than a portent of climate change.
But to their dismay, the party standard-bearer has now signaled that he intends to go for broke in the final stretch of the campaign. CONT.
Karen Tumulty & Robert Costa, Washington Post