Does the GOP ever recover from the Trump "hi-jacking" of their Party?

[DetlefK]

1. Even if they wanted to, they can't: They have driven their own voter-base into his arms.

The republican establishment whipped up anti-establishment sentiment in their voter-base to fire them up for a fight against Obama.

This anti-establishment credo backfired when Trump the Non-Republican won the republican primary by making the republican voter-base choose him over the republican establishment.

Clinton was the establishment-candidate. Trump was the anti-establishment-candidate.



The GOP has turned their voters into Trump-voters by firing them up over and over again, up to the point where Republicans started believing their own lies (e.g. holding 60 votes to repeal Obamacare).
If the GOP were to send Trump into exile, he would take maybe 25% of the republican voter-base with him. This political bloodletting would be lethal.

So, here's your choice:
An illness that will ruin your life or a therapy that will cure the illness but ruin your life in a different way?



And which Republican could probably succeed Trump? Which Republican could match his indifference to facts, traditions and norms?
Would the same people who voted for Trump, with all the polarization and fire, vote for a boring republican candidate like Jeb or Romney?





I wrote it here on DU a while ago:
If I were Paul Ryan, Trump's victory in the republican primary would make me very, very, very worried.