I had still hoped that all this stuff about Republican "reform" and "healing" after the Trump debacle actually meant something, but it doesn't.  The Republicans have realized that what Trump shows (for the first time at least since the tense years right after World War I) is that the politics of anger, fear and resentment works. They will pick up where he left off, preserving themselves as a shrinking but unscrupulous minority by continuing and increasing the demonization of Hillary Clinton.  She will win the election, but without at least grudging Republican acceptance of her legitimacy, she cannot govern except by doing what Obama did (and was excoriated for by the Republicans)--resorting to executive orders. Which she will.  She will have no choice.  And the courts will uphold her.  Meanwhile, say goodbye to the American tradition of self-government as it circles the toilet bowl.

The only ones who can change the outcome are the Republicans.  And they won't.