Imagine If Donald Trump Died.

What Does the GOP Do NOW?

Breaking (really fake) News: Donald Trump is dead. His years of dieting primarily on fast food finally caught up with him in the form of a massive, deadly, coronary. He died alone, in front of a TV tuned to Fox News, at Mar-a- Lago.

Well. What does the GOP do now?

The creator of ‘stolen’ election myths around which the party has circled its wagons has passed on to his reward — which undoubtedly will include undying ‘emotion’ from… those who have long wished the worst for him.

In the meantime, the Republican party now has a, um, deadly serious problem: It so closely, cultishly aligned itself to DJT even before, and ever more since, his electoral defeat, it has no back-up plan. No candidate in the wings. Nowhere, in short, to go from here.

Already seen by many as committing political suicide by continuing to support Trump, the party would undoubtedly cede any right it thinks it has to leadership should it choose to hew to the tune of either of its most extreme, and silly, members — Leader Mitch McConnell ((Ky) or Newcomer Gadfly Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga).

Does it move past ‘The Big Lie’ that he actually won the November presidential election? Does it admit, reluctantly, that much of the criticism that was leveled against him was, in fact, fair? Does it tell the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene to peddle her papers… and conspiracy theories… elsewhere — after she’s tossed out of Congress?

And will there be those who imagine he’s not actually dead — he’s just passed out in front of the White House TV?