UPDATE: Tea Party (Fiscal Conservative Activism) Is Officially Dead.

[Quequeg]

How so? If anything, Trump gradually morphing into a run-of-the-mill Republican president would only enbolden them.

I would agree that they steeped to new lows in order to get what they wanted out of him, but looking back, is it that much of a surprise?

Hence exposing their cowardice and hypocrisy, hopefully enough voters will notice.