What magical, mystical neorepublican indica bud are you smoking? I mean - Christine Todd Whitman? As I started reading your hypothesis I found myself saying "Nikki Haley?" and if you're trying to remember the name of that pretty snake with shitty policies over there somewhere, you aren't really presaging success. Thing of it is, anybody running against anybody in 2020 exists right now. They have some form of political presence. And they're either part of the Clusterfuck 2016 GOP Klown Kar or they're fucking hiding in a spider hole somewhere. Which means they have to pop up some point in the next 28 months and try to out-Clinton Clinton, who, by your own words, was married to the guy who "co-opted all the moderate Republican programs, renamed them, spun the story around, and knocked the R's off their balance. It took them until Mitt Romney to find their feet again."

I mean, Jindal's dead. The Bush legacy is done. Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell is trying to get the tame crazies to come out for gun rights on the thinnest fragment of an excuse so that the feral crazies don't drag the party any closer to Ted Nugent than it already is.

The Republicans, if they're lucky, get to run Bloomberg in 2020. If they're LUCKY. You think the Tea Party Brownshirts are going to rally behind a centrist New York Jew billionaire? Meanwhile you've got Trump's off-leash crazies hating on Fox News.

I had a boss who pointed out that the Democrats of 2004 were a lot closer to the Republicans of 1964 than they were the Democrats of 1964, who were closer to the Green Party of 2004. I think the thing that everybody is saying but not really taking seriously is that the Democrats are the Republicans and the Republicans are the Know Nothings.

The Republicans are headed for schism. I don't see a real way around it. And a party in schism doesn't win elections.