Republicans are at a crossroads: Will they break up with Trump or continue to embrace him?
President Trump came to power by offering to blow up Republican politics, and he will leave power on Wednesday with the wreckage in his wake.
Four years after molding itself around Trump’s whims and purging anyone seen as disloyal to him, Republicans have lost control of the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. Their standard-bearer is departing with the lowest approval rating of his tenure. Members of the party have been rebuked by corporate donors after the Capitol riot.
And the most polarizing president in modern history is leaving his party with one final gift: An internal schism over whether its path back to power requires a continued embrace of Trump and Trumpism, or their repudiation.
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