Like the Titanic’s architects realizing their fatal design flaw right around the first strains of “Nearer My God To Thee,” Republicans are waking up to the realization that their presidential primary scheme is more Frankenstein than Frank Gehry.

Rather than being a racial healer, Barack Obama has presided over and at times stoked more racial divisiveness than we have seen in a long while.

“The best thing to happen to Trump is that Cruz won his home state because that means he’s going to stay in the race,” said Dave Brady, a professor of political science at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. “And as long as there are five people in the race, that means he can continue to win without winning a majority of the voters.”