A conservative time traveler from 2016 would find the whole charade amusing, if it weren’t so serious. “Didn’t you fools hear the warnings?” he or she might say. “Republicans anticipated this. We predicted this is precisely what a Trump administration would look like!” They would be correct, of course. GOP leaders were accurate in describing the man and prophetic in forecasting the outcome of this presidency. The validity of their words hasn’t changed. What changed is their minds.
