Was talking about this the other day: it wasn’t too long ago, historically speaking, that the Democrats told the white supremacists that they were no longer welcome in the Democratic Party. But prior to that, there was an alliance – a craven, power-over-lives, look-the-other-way alliance. Eventually the Dems made the right call, the Dixiecrats were born and eventually were welcomed by the Republicans.
So the question is: now that the craven, power-over-lives, look-the-other-way alliance is clearly on the Republican side, when will it get bad enough that they will they make the same call? I suspect there is no “bad enough” for that to happen, but I’m a cynic.
But if something does happen, here’s my guess: it will be centered on Russia, and the fissure will start to blow up by the end of September (this year). The Russia topic would allow Republicans to sidestep the issue–denouncing Trump without theoretically alienating white supremacists (I say theoretically because Trump is their damn hero, so it absolutely will infuriate them). And if they wait too long, the continuing never-ending scandal of it all may taint their 2018 prospects. That’s assuming the Russia problem can be contained to just the Trump administration, which is a big “if”, and one of the reasons I’m inclined to think nothing will happen.