Murkowski needs to realize that the old "conservativism"  (actually, a doctrinaire radicalism) is going down in flames as we watch.  Trump's win is not the final triumph of the Republican party but its death warrant.  The chaos he spreads id dividing his own party much faster than it will divide the Democrats.  The things the Republican party is now drunkenly contemplating--the things it has foolishly promised its gerrymandered constituents for the last eight years--are simply suicidal: approve grossly unfit nominees, ignore the immense potential for corruption they and Trump bring into office, wreck the ACA, hand even bigger tax windfalls to the 1%, balloon the deficit, join Trump on his knees before Putin, side with Trump in his war on intelligence agencies, continue insulting Latinos, women and Muslims . . . Does Murkowski really want to be remembered for that?