The Emperor has no clothes, people finally figured it out, and that's that for the GOP, until the Democrats blow it.
The GOP lost the carefully cultivated image, and suddenly appeared to be a group of fat, disgusting, corrupt, incompetant pigs.
It will take decades to get that image out of the publics mind, especially after the hearings bring it all out into the open in the next two years. Every congressional committee chairman, both House and Senate, has subpoena power and an axe to grind. And a good set of hearings, that dig up some good dirt, and get a lot of airplay, could propel that committe chair into the Whitehouse.

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“ The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.”

Adam Smith , The Wealth of Nations 1776

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"
FDR's second Inaugural Address