The Republican establishment appears close to throwing up its hands, admitting that Donald Trump will be the party’s presidential nominee, and working to save control of the Senate by separating themselves from Trump. But that’s not a position that sits well with many grassroots and outsider Republicans of the type who’ve propelled Trump (and, to a lesser extent, Ted Cruz) to success:
“We’ve endured eight years of the Obama regime. The last thing we need is to give up the White House,” said Judson Phillips, the founder of Tea Party Nation, which claims to have 100,000 members. [...]
“That kind of talk creates a self-fulfilling prophecy that will enable their very demise. They aren’t really as interested in defeating Democrats as they are in saving their own hides,” said Steve Deace, a conservative radio host based in Iowa who backs Cruz.
I believe this is called reaping what you have sown—for both the Trump-hating establishment and the Trump/Cruz crowd. Have fun with it, guys. The rest of us would be making popcorn if we weren’t so sad and scared about what your party is doing to our country.