hubiestubert: To be fair, these people have been waiting for their Krystallnacht, and it never happened. All they can hope for now is their Nacht der langen Messer. And they're only carrying Swiss Army knives, so it's just disappointing. They were promised blood, but no one told them they'd have to do the heavy lifting. This was supposed to be televised. So much disappointment.

Sadly, this.

Derpublicans don't really have anything coherent enough to call a "plan". With the exception of the occasional True Believer, each one is basically using the party for access to gullible rubes with money (and votes) to burn. Each has his/her own agenda, which sometimes aligns with the agendas of the senior party leadership, but they're mostly in the game for their own entertainment and (especially) enrichment. They're all about the path of least resistance, and the easy way to get power an money is to fleece the low-information portion of the population by pretending to share that group's delusions and insecurities.

The path of least resistance is fading out beneath their feet, so each individual derpublican politician has been flailing about, trying desperately to get the demographic tide to retreat at their command. Adapting to reality has never been the strong suit for any conservative, but the pandering to the lowest common denominator has led to derpublican politicians stuck on stupid. They cannot change policies to appeal to rational voters, because the thick-witted rubes they've been gulling for decades will stop supporting them with money and votes. The rational voters are usually harder to please and are also harder to con with impunity- they might vote for the ex-derpublican, but are less likely to sacrifice Junior's college fund to support parasites such as politicians. It takes hard work to induce well-informed people to support a politician, and derpublicans have let those political muscles atrophy while they've been glutting themselves at troughs full of under-informed voters.

No matter what they do, derpublican politicians are facing their worst fear- irrelevance. Fewer and fewer voters are buying the snake-oil they're selling, and those who do are often slightly unstable. This election has shown them their future- the poorly-educated white male demographic is no longer sufficient to prop up the political career of lazy politicians. Dumb and lazy politicians are even more prone than usual to choose impulsive, short-term solutions to their longer-term problems. So some of them are manically pushing every political button they can find to protect their phony-baloney jobs. Their panic-blinded eyes are locked on their next hit of power and cash, and they are therefore ignoring the likely consequences of their blundering.

Derpublican politicians can't risk pissing off the toddler-in-chief. They can't afford to switch sides without suffering immediate political penalties. They've painted themselves into a corner, and the desperate attempts to get out of the mess they're in are increasingly likely to result in violence from the deranged shiatweasels among us. The political and personal consequences of their panic are far more likely to be detrimental than helpful to those derpublicans and their political futures, but they don't (or can't) care. They're in trouble right now, so they make increasingly risky bets- with lives as the table stakes.

If large-scale political violence breaks out as a result of these stupid decisions by lazy politicians (there have already been scattered incidents), the politicians who stirred it up are likely to lose everything they're trying so desperately to keep. Either the violent actors get quickly curb-stomped or the violence escalates into long-running guerilla warfare. The politicians who started it will be screwed either way. Political violence and societal instability tend to have deleterious effects on profit margins- both political and financial. When their constituents are living in fear of terrorist attacks by their fellow Americans, they'll be unlikely to send money to politicians. Corporate donors and/or rich families would likely be less enthusiastic to support politicians under those circumstances.

But that's all tomorrow. Derpublican politicians are focused on what they want today, confident they can deal with the consequences later. They're just like drug addicts in that respect. Gotta get that next fix- nothing else matters.