Well, this is the end.
Well, this is the end. Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com

Look, Republicans, it's time to face the facts about your party: it's the party of Donald Trump. It isn't a party he took over, and it's not an election that he hijacked β€” you've managed to cook up a horrible little petrie dish of cruelty where toxic bacteria like Trump can thrive.

Now, what are you going to do about it?

The voter base that the GOP has cultivated for decades has made up its mind: they want a semi-sentient insult machine to run the country, and they've given him the overwhelming majority of votes and delegates. So now the Cruz and Kasich machines have cooked up a bizarre strategy to subvert the will of those Republican voters: they're going to win the election by losing on purpose.

Here's their plan: Kasich's going to take a fall in Indiana so Cruz has a shot; Cruz is going to lose Oregon and New Mexico so Kasich has a shot.

Indiana's the most important of those states, since Trump is leading by just a few percentage points. Kasich's running out of money, and could never have afforded to take on Trump. But Cruz might.

Still, I'd hate to be a Kasich delegate in Indiana right now. AWKWARD.

β€œThis strikes me as a choice made based on the limited campaign time, and so it made sense for both campaigns to do this,” said one delegate there. β€œWho I support is still about the best Republican option for the fall election.”

When I read about this little arrangement, the first thing it made me think of is the couple in Titanic lying in bed together as the ship goes down.

But now's probably not a great time to get smug, as a lot of Democrats are feeling at the moment. (Comments on a Gawker story about the plan were mostly gifs of Hillary looking pleased.) Smug self-satisfaction is exactly what blinded the GOP to the danger that their own voters pose, and by the time anyone noticed that Trump had taken root, it was too late.

And as long as we're talking about unlikely partnership, let's just point out Hillary and Donald Trump's shared office at 1209 North Orange Street in Wilmington, Delaware. They're both members of a tax shelter that's cost the country upwards of $9.5 billion in dodged taxes.

According to the Clinton campaign, "No federal, state, or local taxes were saved by the Clintons as a result of this structure." Sure, of course, that's definitely true. There are lots of totally non-tax-related reasons to establish a holding company at an Delaware mailbox that serves nearly 300,000 other companies.

But anyway, so what? It's not like it's a big shocker that millionaires manipulate their money to make more money. If you're a Democrat and you don't like that, you've got an alternative: Bernie Sanders. If you're a Republican and you don't like that ... well, then you probably shouldn't be a Republican.