The Trump brand staged a successful hostile takeover of the GOP. Why is this surprising to anyone?
For a family of grifters, this is the ultimate grift. You’re above the law, and you can divert significant portions of the nation’s massive resource flows into your pockets and those of your powerful friends and defenders. Why would they ever give that up?
Who would spend decades building a cult of personality around their name, and then just walk away from the kleptocratic gold mine that lay at the end of that path?
Unlike a corporation, the GOP’s resources consist primarily of their voters’ minds. Fox News or a group of forceful anti-Trump GOP leaders could probably pull the plug on this if they wanted to. But they are either too compromised, unprincipled, or just chicken sh*t to do it.
