I don’t know who will end up with the label “Republican Party,” but most current officeholders operating under it have been championing voter suppression, white supremacy, and legal subordination of women since before Trump. 1/

The Republican alliance between white supremacists and the very wealthy dates back to the mid-twentieth century; the addition of misogynist religious zealots dates to the 1970s. 2/

The Reagan years cemented the GOP identity that people like Liz Cheney and Mitch McConnell have been comfortable with for decades. Every step of the way, the GOP has absorbed voters and interest groups once regarded as fringe players uninterested in democratic pluralism. 3/

It seems odd that people think that there is, going forward, a meaningful fight for the current Republican Party infrastructure, which is responsible for the lying and sedition Cheney and McConnell are just now speaking against. 4/

There might be a legitimate center right political party in the U.S. again someday. Whatever it is called, it won’t be grown from today’s Republican Party. People like Cheney and McConnell don’t want a fundamentally different GOP. 5/

Cheney and McConnell, and quite possibly Romney and Collins, are nostalgic for the racist, patriarchical, plutocrats’ GOP that kept its antiplurastic agenda sufficiently opaque as to discourage its more violent aficionados from taking action. 6/

Those who sincerely want a legitimate center-right political party in this country are not and will not spend time and effort “reclaiming” the Republican Party. They have more chance of succeeding by allying with the most conservative wing of the Democratic Party. 7/

Of course, Republicans who ally with Democrats can’t win primaries among today’s Republican voters. And, they don’t have credibility with even more conservative Democratic voters. 8/

So, some Republicans, e.g. Cheney and McConnell, will protect their re-election chances rather than prioritize the creation of a legitimate center right party. 9/

Not that it will happen, but when Cheney, McConnell, Romney, Collins etc. declare themselves Independents and stop caucusing with the likes of McCarthy and Graham, that’s when they will begin to seem committed to U.S. constitutionalism. 10/