As I've explained here many times, I used to vote Republican.

I switched in the 2004 election, because the war in Iraq. 

Kerry lost, and I swore at that point we needed to find out what was wrong, why so many Americans could vote to continue such a wrong unprovoked stupid war. Then 2008, the crash, and I figured at that point Americans had surely woken up. We elected Obama. We're on our way back! I figured at that point it couldn't revert. But it did. The people who were bitter then are even worse off now, I guess, and they are looking for someone to blame. They're white, so people of color, Muslims, Mexicans, blacks, of course, are who they blame. Which brings out the anti-semitism and we're off to the races.

On Friday we learn that after all the things Trump did, the one that causes his fellow Repubs to jump ship is that he boasted of sexual assault, on camera, in a very Trumpian way. That's it? After calling for the assassination of his opponent? Refusing to disavow support from the KKK? Giving comfort to the enemy? Pussygate is what causes his downfall? I doubted it then, I still doubt it now. I think that Josh Marshall called it. Trump is certain to lose and the Repubs are trying to salvage what's left of their careers. 

But wait, he did okay in the debate, so maybe the Republicans will get back on board.. 

But did he do okay in the debate?

Now he's saying that he'll put his opponent in jail when he's elected. He said it in front of millions of Americans. That is imho disqualifying. The Repubs should be denouncing that. But I have a feeling that instead they're going to just ignore it.

When did the Repubs decide that their careers matter more than the country? How could they swing back to him just because his bluster fit the template of a Repub presidential candidate? Never mind that his talk was a nonsense word salad of sniffs and barks and threats to dissent. 

We are truly fucked.