The Modern GOP

 So far - even absent Chaos Agent Donald Trump - this is what the modern GOP is offering up:

- A Speaker of the House so weak and ineffectual that he can't even stake out a position on the debt ceiling from whence to negotiate. This effectively brings the US to the edge of default, again, when the GOP controls part of Congress and a Democrat holds the White House. They aren't even arsonists so much as pyromaniacs with matches.

- The guy they thought was going to be their cure for Trump has decided to launch a fatwa against Disney World. Picking a beef with the world's largest entertainment company seems like a good idea for a barn (cross) burning back bencher, but for someone who styled himself as a the "reasonable alternative to Trump" it looks like he's a fool. 

For the umpteenth time, the problem with the GOP is not Donald Trump. The problem is that Donald Trump is exactly sort of cruel buffoon that the Republicans want. No ability to govern, just attack enemies, usually in the most ineffectual and counterproductive way possible.