Romney-Ryan segment of the party grumbles, groans and silently hopes Trump is convicted and barred from running for president, they grossly underestimate the level of disdain ordinary Americans have for them. For nearly 40 years, these people have duped hard working Republican voters and choked off dissent by controlling the RNC and infiltrating local and state branches of the party to manipulate the rules. For decades, candidates with ideas that strayed from the party dogma were squeezed out by the process and marginalized.
It took someone with a massive fortune to break through the bureaucratic entanglements and road blocks Romney-Ryan bureaucrats had erected to keep their stranglehold on the party, and now, they simply can’t accept that their time has passed. The average Republican voter doesn’t care if a large multinational corporation can lower its labor costs 10 cents a unit by moving its manufacturing to Shanghai. They want tariffs on China until the playing field is level. Voters don’t want to hear the phrase “boots on the ground” when the boots belong to their own kid fighting a meaningless war on foreign soil. They’re tired of watching truckloads of young men from hostile foreign countries being disbursed into their cities and neighborhoods.