Consider the following generic polling numbers. A Washington Post-ABC News poll shows Democrats lead by a 52 percent to 38 percent margin in voters’ preference for the next congressional majority. In a poll by Public Policy Polling, the margin is Democrats +10. In FiveThirtyEight’s congressional preference tracking poll, Democrats lead by 10 points, “which would mean a wave,” although Nate Silver cautions that the numbers are “bouncy.” If this keeps up, a congressional wave election may await Republicans. Smashing, bone-numbing defeat is one way to de-Trumpify the GOP — or convince Trump that the presidency and this whole political thing aren’t much fun. (A flip in control of the House also means impeachment becomes a real possibility.)

Then watch out for the fratricidal attack the White House is mounting on Republicans. Trump’s political operation was behind attack ads on Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) and reportedly is searching for challengers to Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) If Trump plans on savaging his own party, #NeverTrump Republicans and Democrats can sit back and watch the party rip itself apart. (And then there is the perennial right-wing Senate Conservatives Fund that is forever looking for mainstream Republicans to vanquish.)

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And let’s not forget the fissure that has opened up between the governors and senators who want to improve health care and the Trumpkin/right-wing alliance that simply wants to destroy the existing system — ’cause they promised. A group of five GOP governors (Larry Hogan of Maryland, Charles Baker of Massachusetts, John Kasich of Ohio, Brian Sandoval of Nevada and Phil Scott of Vermont) signed on with six Democratic governors in a letter declaring:

Congress should work to make health insurance more affordable by controlling costs and stabilizing the market, and we are pleased to see a growing number of senators stand up for this approach. The Senate should immediately reject efforts to ‘repeal’ the current system and replace sometime later. This could leave millions of Americans without coverage. The best next step is for both parties to come together and do what we can all agree on: fix our unstable insurance markets. Going forward, it is critically important that governors are brought to the table to provide input, and we stand ready to work with lawmakers in an open, bipartisan way to provide better insurance for all Americans.

Those are fighting words — reason for a divorce — as far as the Trumpkin/right-wing faction is concerned.

So come to think of it, hasn’t the party already fissured over the major issue of health care? A batch of House and Senate Republicans wants to look at the results of a GOP bill and compare them with Obamacare to determine if there would be improvement (shocking, I know!) while others don’t care what the Congressional Budget Office, the insurance companies, the doctors or anyone else has to say. The latter group of lawmakers live in the fact-free universe just as Trump does, a universe preserved and perpetuated by the right-wing media bubble. They want repeal because they have said they wanted it for seven years, because they are convinced it is failing and because they never accepted the federal government as guarantor of health insurance.