"Trump has instructed his top political advisers to begin monitoring potential 2022 GOP primary targets, as he lashes out at fellow Republicans whom he deems disloyal….
"His team is now taking … formal steps — such as tracking their public comments — with an eye toward possibly marshaling the president’s political operation to replace them with more Trump-friendly figures."
Since, especially in midterms, primary battles are fought primarily by the most heatedly committed — not the broad range of differentiated, general election voters — and thus tend to elevate the more radical of pols, Trump's vindictive interventions in 2022 should guarantee that the Republican Party remains utterly bonkers.
And that could be the needed opening for Democrats doubling over in anguish at the prospect of their party's shattering in two years. The Washington Post:
[Democratic] strategists now speak privately with a sense of gloom and publicly with a tone of concern as the [2020] election results become clearer. They worry about the potential emergence of a mostly male and increasingly interracial working-class coalition for Republicans that will cut into the demographic advantages Democrats had long counted on. They speculate that the tremendous Democratic gains in the suburbs during the Trump years might fade when he leaves office. And they fret that their inability to make inroads in more rural areas could forestall anything but the most narrow Senate majority in the future.
Of course, axiomatic is that Democrats are forever doubling over in anguish. But the Trumpian, guerrilla resistance to political sanity is in fact substantial, and could hurl yet another electoral apocalypse on the nation.
Conversely, as Trump gets even crazier, while bringing the GOP along in his madness, we could also see substantial erosion of support by those mostly male, increasingly interracial working-class members, suburban areas and rural outposts.
In brief, we can often count on Republicans' propensity to shoot themselves in the head.