What you're really looking for is for the Republican party to stop embracing policies that those people agree with.

Nobody said the morons must not make their idiotic comments just that the GOP would be wise in getting rid of them.

So long as the Republican party mostly espouses philosophies that those people agree with, they won't be "rid of them".

Free speech exercised irresponsibly has measurable consequences, and the GOP is about to reap them. If the GOP is motivated enough to reform itself ("purge&quot it will be doing so on its own accord. The First amendment will allow it, as it has allowed it's willful stupidity up to this point.

So long as they espouse policies that those commentators agree with, how are they supposed to "purge" themselves of those people if not to find a way to gag them?

It would be no more than when the Democrats rejected the Dixiecrats from within the party in the late 40's after Roosevelt's realignment of the platform occurred.

Please tell me how the Republicans can "reject" people who are going on TV and radio and agreeing with them?

Senator McConnell: "Sean, thank you for agreeing with everything I stand for, but I reject you because.......well.......errrr.......I just do. Consider yourself rejected!"

You're not getting the fact that at that time, the mainstream Democrats came to disagree diametrically with the Dixiecrats. Different situation here.

Hopefully a few of the elected GOP Trumpsters will end up caught in the vortex of goodbye as well.

... that will draw from both Democrats and Republicans.

Not this election... not the next one... but not far beyond...

With a change of the make-up of the SCOTUS, all of those gerrymandered congressional districts will be gone. Voter restriction laws will be gone. Then after the 2020 census changes those same districts, the GOP will be hit even harder. The GOP will survive, but it won't resemble what it looks like today. Maybe another party will emerge - let's call it the batshit crazy former teabagger racist republican party

1) Democrats fall asleep for the Mid term as usual
2) Democrats don't implement (or get to implement) their 2016 platform

Hard to see who the GOP can turn to, as long as they are full of racists and hard right knobs.

The Republican Party was a very profitable business, an inside track to favoritism and corruption. It's going to go down like any other corrupt business, with the smart people leaving first and the fools who can't change their spots staying with it for the rest of their lives. They'll be bought out by increasingly corrupt and unstable owners who will manipulate it to their own ends.

They'll die out in a future so distant it's impossible to predict--except that such a future is possible thanks to their implosion.

At least they had a shred if integrity back then.

and they may actually get away with nominating a lunatic for president.

I think we should be focusing on our own party before deciding what the GOP should do.

That is the $64 question. Trump will go away (we hope), but the fascist explosion he caused aint going anywhere. They WILL find a new front man.