Meh, it's always been a political marriage of convenience. I don't see her as a victim.
FMR and others, I saw a piece earlier where the premise is that Trump might be a sign of political things to come for the Pub party. Most of the thinking, and I've largely bought into it, has been that Trump is sui generis. Assuming he loses, he'll go away and Pub politics will go back to the way they were - a mix of Establishment, religious right, tea baggers.... But if you look at Europe, there has been a rise in nativism there in Hungary, Austria, France with Le Pen and in England with Boris Johnson and Nigel what's his face winning the Brexit vote. The 1 tie that traditionally has bound Pubs together is a pro business approach to politics. But now Trump comes along and he's extremely anti trade and immigration (in stark contrast with the Chamber of Commerce), and his budget projections are about as fanciful as Bernie Sanders' were. The religious right and tea baggers used to seem to buy into the party's pro business agenda. But with Trump, that's out the window. So my question is whether Trump is a 1 of a kind candidate or whether y'all think he's a portent of political things to come in the Pub party.