But I have to wonder about the racism excuse. Because it's not like the party of Lincoln has been exactly inviting to non-whites in recent history.

Is he up for election this year and if so have any Democrats declared against him?

But his is the #3 'conservative' district in Iowa. My bet is he is so popular up there he wouldn't need a party to run.

By 2018 Trump will be a bad memory and Johnson will be back as a pug.
You may remember his little splash in the news @ this time last year when he told a teacher that was complaining about Branstad's line item veto of school funding to "quit whining."

Especially with the Teaparty Herald and the other various media outlets around - that's the first I heard of that.

am going to PM you

where actual reporters can hear it.

And as you said above, after Trump is a memory, they can go back to their old ways.

And bring back bitching about reverse racism in America.

Every time I hear of some Republican getting their hands slapped by other Republicans for something they put on Facebook, Twitter, or said something that made the news I think it's not so much that they did that, it's that they said it out loud. These things are usually things that they think all the time.