We probably should've seen this coming.

Last week, Paul Ryan came to his senses and realized his tentative support of the Trump campaign was little more than a delusional cruise on a sinking ship – finally declaring he would not be defending Trump, instead opting to spend the next month trying to maintain the Republican hold on Congress.

(I don't love Paul Ryan's voting record on virtually everything, but I can definitely understand trying to back away from the ticking time bomb that is Trump.)

Naturally, Donald decided to express his thoughts via strangely cryptic Tweets, saying that even though he won the second debate by a landslide, it would be hard to win without the support of his own party – but then on Fox, he threw another mini tantrum, saying that he didn't want its help anyway.

By this point, the American public is coming to terms with the fact that, in all likelihood, we're looking at a future Clinton presidency – and possibly even a Democratic Congress, which of course, I'm thrilled about.

This loss of Speaker Ryan's support shows that Republican Party is being torn apart by Trump's rhetoric – Trump supporters and "mainstream Republicans," while sharing some stances, are vastly different. Before this election cycle, your standard conservative politician would never dream of categorically insulting Muslims, women, Hispanics, the disabled, and countless celebrities and prominent people.

When (not if) Trump loses next month, and if the GOP's hold on Congress is broken, we'll end up with a conservative party in pieces, with few prominent leaders on the national politics stage. Who knows what Donald would do if he were to lose? His faction of fanatical pseudo-conservatism may simply be grudgingly reabsorbed into the mainstream Republican Party, once they ditch the overt discrimination (and start keeping it subtle?).

Hopefully, if this happens, the GOP will undergo a restructuring of its values more suited to the 21st century. Fiscal conservatism certainly has a place in the debate over America's future.

So a premature congratulations to future President-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton – and I hope we'll see the Republican party in a few years, when Republican leaders get it together and roll out an agenda that retains conservatism while adjsuting to address our modern society and the challenges it faces today.