Paul Mirengoff takes about 15 paragraphs overnight to belch about some GOP “get tough” measures on the southern border. [Never mind that a fair chunk of them are… unconsti- tutional on their face.] No, my point here is that Paul wants the regular GOP to have the benefit of “trying it” — while admitting that the GOP regulars suffer from Stockholm Syndrome, as to Tangerine.

Speaker Johnson (from a Ruby Red Louisiana district) will be primaried, and lose his seat in Congress — if he gives Mr. Biden even a small win, on border issues. Trump has plainly said this to him, face to face.

So what Paul is right about… is that Tangerine is killing the largely former, now mostly dead GOP brand. The party is in the thrall of a lunatic. [And because this lunacy will preserve the asylum process our treaties guarantee, as an independent democrat, I’d not fight too terribly hard for Ukraine aid (to which the loon have tied themselves), if that is the hill Tangerine and Johnson decide to… die upon.]

And he will lose in the general, in any event. [Even if, by some miracle, he isn’t already a convicted felon, and removed from the ballots in Colorado, Maine and Illinois.]

Anyhoo — welcome, Mr. Mirengoff to what your own 2016 deals with the devil now cost: Your Party; and… (soon) Your Soul.

Out.