Of course the parties are reversed since 1910, but so too have many of the salient positions on the issues of race-relations, civil rights, immigration, income equity and free trade, like-wise since then.

Overall, I’d say this former speech-writer for Bush 41 has hit it… spot on. Here’s the piece — and a bit:

“…In the [highly-likely] case of a Trump defeat, surviving Republican officeholders and party leaders will find themselves next year absorbing an amazing result: Their historic base among the better-off and better-educated will have overwhelmingly deserted them. Their yearned-for growth in support among more affluent and ambitious nonwhites will have receded still further away. And their newly expanded base among angry and alienated downscale whites will have cast votes for a set of policies repugnant to those theoretically tasked with trying to implement them.

After November, the outlook of the Republican elite may well be captured by the grim joke told by Bertolt Brecht after the 1953 Berlin uprising: “Would it not be simpler if the government simply dissolved the people and elected another?” Like the post-Bryan Democrats who turned for support from Bryan’s Protestant countryside to Al Smith’s Catholic big cities, the post-Trump Republicans may focus their attention on their lost upmarket and hoped-for minority votes and turn their backs on a working-class base that would be assigned the blame for the 2016 debacle.

There would be some fairness in this….”

Indeed. We may be witnessing the end of the GOP — even though it will retain its same name — for at least one more election cycle. It has lost its way, truly. Hmmm… Maybe Trump will end life as a fire and brimstone preacher. Maybe.