I have a slim hope that somebody like Susan Collins is going to decide this kind of Republican Party isn't hers anymore, declare herself Party of Lincoln, and caucus with the Democrats. But can you possibly scrape together three to flip the Senate? And she would take so much hate, it would be unreal.

Other than that, I think Pence shows how the deal goes: Trump gets what he wants, the pseudo-Christian right gets what they want. So many Republicans were willing to deal even when he was a losing candidate, I'm afraid few will resist now that they can say the people have spoken (and the elector mechanism). We'll see if it's enough.

At least people like McConnell made an immediate point of stating that the U.S. is committed to NATO. The Senate can't make Trump defend Estonia, can't pull his finger off the nuclear button either, but it's something.