President-elect Trump has announced that although he thanks Nikki Haley for her support during the election, she will not be invited to join the incoming Trump administration.
Haley, for her part, states that she was not interested in a position in the new administration, anyway.
I am willing to take both sides at their word here. The split between the neocon branch of the GOP and MAGA is philosophical and fundamental. A working relationship between Trump and Haley would be tortuous for both sides.
This is not unprecedented, either. A similar split occurred in the GOP between 1976 and 1980, when the Reagan wing of the Republican Party displaced the faction represented by Gerald Ford. The bad blood between Gerald Ford and Reagan is now a footnote in our political history, but it was very real at the time.
There is no going back to the neocons after last Tuesday. The Republican Party has changed forever, for better or worse.
-ET