The results are in from the South Carolina primary. After weeks of debate, polling, talking heads’ opining and everyone holding their breath, now the GOP vector is fairly well set. How so? Let us begin to analyze these outcomes.

Trump won every Congressional District in South Carolina and Jeb Bush finally quit. Whew. But there’s more data out there, and we’ll talk about that in a minute. But here’s the upshot: the only chance the GOP had of winning the presidency in November just quit. Goodbye, Satan. The GOP will miss you.

I kind of know how Patty Hearst must have felt when the cops killed the Symbionese Liberation Army (look that one up, you young’uns). It’s a shock to realize after 22 years of waiting – yes, 22 years since the Newt Gingrich-led conservative Republican takeover of the government – that it’s finally over. And it appears that the entire GOP electorate has revolted against their revolting masters. They are ostensibly supporting the man who is the furthest thing from a dream candidate for the GOP establishment that could be found. Ain’t it great? Yeah, but no. Let’s think on.

What will emerge now is a pitched battle between DtheT and Little Marco Big Heels Rubio (Lil’ M for short). The betting site PredictWise has it a 50/46% split between the two. Jeb dropping out pushed Lil’ M up 7%, as he’s now the anointed allegedly moderate candidate. Sir Ted the Dour is at 2% and might not be long for the race. So that means the GOP establishment is having to pin all its hopes on a neophyte, pretty boy who can’t stand the heat in a not-very-tough debate format, a Senator they loathe, or John Kasich? Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!

PredictWise also has the outcome at a consistent 61/39% breakdown for the Democrat over the Republican in November. And that Democrat ain’t The Bern. So, gentle readers, the best – and likely only – chance the GOP had to retake the White House in the fall just left the building, and – more importantly – I’m confident the party elders know it. I’d love to be a fly on the wall at their breakfast gathering this morning.

In order for DtheT not to get enough delegates to win, this will have to be a three or four man race. That means Ted and/or Kasich will have to stay in the race for the long haul. Watch big money come pouring into Kasich’s campaign. The only hope now is for it to be a brokered election to stop DtheT. That which they wanted to avoid has now become a necessity. But in the process of stopping him, they will likely put the final nail in the coffin of the GOP. The party is now is like a patient with pancreatic cancer and Donald Trump is radiation and chemo all rolled into one. DtheT: the destroyer of cells and organs and everything else in this aging and frail body.

But the real irony – and one that eventually Op-Ed writers will stumble upon – is that DtheT is the ultimate product of all these years of ‘making shit up’ perpetrated by the party and its surrogates: The Weekly Standard, the NRA, the Dick Cheney and Fox News. The empire is crumbling because it finally produced Caligula. And the net result of all this? After Hillary wins, she will nominate someone to the Supreme Court that is left with a capital L. The dark side of the force is destroyed. Welcome back to the country of progress. I guess I won’t have to move to Norway after all. No wardrobe changes needed. Whew!