Donald Trump’s Republican Party likes to throw punches and never apologize.

Even after three continuous cycles of defeat tied directly to Trump’s brand of all-fight-and-no-finesse, the MAGA vanguard never seems to learn their lesson.

Especially here in Arizona.

That may be changing after the Arizona Supreme Court decision on abortion awakened the party to its own defects and brought a welcome dose of humility to a movement long lacking in self-awareness.

We are finally witnessing the MAGA leadership come face to face with their own folly — and that may turn out ultimately to be good for the state and nation.

MAGA politics have been cataclysmic to the Arizona Republican Party.

In a state in which the party still holds a roughly 107,000-and-shrinking registration advantage over Democrats, it has lost two U.S. Senate seats, the governor’s office, the secretary of state and the attorney general.

In the Arizona House and Senate, the margins are so close that one good blunder could send both chambers hurtling into the arms of Democrats.

That blunder may have just happened.

It’s been two years since the tide rolled out on Donald Trump and Republican officeholders across America.

In the summer of 2022, a Trump-crafted conservative court vacated the 1973 landmark abortion ruling Roe v. Wade, and many Republicans celebrated what they believed to be a game-changing victory on abortion.

But Dobbs v. Jackson had merely moved the abortion debate to the........

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