Article snippet: The TAKE with Rick Klein President Donald Trump may or may not get what he wants in terms of concessions from North Korea out of his summit with Kim Jong Un. But either way, he arrives back in the United States having again demonstrated the triumph of Trumpism inside his own party, and amid fresh evidence that the forces he exploited are stronger than ever in the GOP. It’s evident in another round of primaries that has demonstrated no available daylight between Trump and Republican candidates for Congress. The Senate race in Virginia on Tuesday was another rush to embrace Trump, and the GOP nod went to a Steve Bannon-favored candidate who has defended Confederate monuments and symbols. The president sought to make his dominance known in South Carolina by attacking Rep. Mark Sanford from aboard Air Force One even as he headed home from Singapore. Sanford went down to defeat Tuesday – a Freedom Caucus member, but insufficiently Trump-ish, it would seem. Then there are the reactions the summit drew from Republicans on Capitol Hill. The party that once balked at meeting with dictators and negotiating with rogue regimes, and that stood for pro-business free trade, is largely letting the president rewrite the rules as he wars with Canada’s prime minister and befriends North Korea’s supreme leader. Trump continues to show that his disruptions are his own version of normal – that he’s directing a grand show of his own making, and bringing the GOP along ... Link to the full article to read more