As horrendous as this all is, I feel like it's unmasking a lot of the dirty underbelly of Republicans that has been brewing for years. Now where we go as a nation from here is what remains to be seen.
My dream idea is that both Republicans and Democrats split and we get out of this bipartisan rut that is turning the nation into this us vs. them mentality where we fail to find common ground or fail to consider discourse, debate, and compromise as a healthy part of our political system.
The healthcare legislation could have legitimately looked at fixing issues with The Affordable Care Act, but instead was a nuclear option that certain Republican leaders tried to ram through the system instead of having a healthy discourse about the bill and try to actually come up with something that wasn't a bad joke.
And then there's just the general political discourse and the fact that the news is trying to normalize how unacceptable Trump's behavior is. More than anything else, I think that is going to be the most damaging part of this presidency: a world leader validating a type of discourse I wouldn't tolerate in my social circles. And yet he's the leader of America.
The whole thing has led to a lot of discouraged and disillusioned conservatives who are growing more and more disgusted with the Republican party. I hope there's a split but I fear that too many Republicans worry that a split now will mean losing to Democrats in the short term and won't address the festering disease that has tainted the party and will only lead to more incidents like Charlottesville.