Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is on life support after a barrage of damaging personal revelations last week sparked an unprecedented stampede of defections from Republican leaders.
But, ironically, if that sequence of events proves the fatal blow to Trump’s tumultuous candidacy, it may help the ideas and animosities powering his campaign to live on inside the GOP. In other words, the manner of Trump’s political demise may extend the life of Trumpism. CONT.
Ronald Brownstein, The Atlantic