The idea is they can use Trump to sink the far right, capture the middle for themselves, kick the left to the curb, and run the country as the "reasonable conservatives" they imagine the GOP (and themselves) to be.
But like Macron in France, trying to outflank fascists from the right merely empowers them. There's no evidence of a meaningful split in the GOP and Trump's continued political power, surpassing Biden in the polls, is a warning of where that "strategy" will get us.
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