The ‘true conservatives’ would gladly scuttle this election for sake of maintaining their sense of control over the party. This has always been about power, not ‘principles’.
Read the article. It certainly is about a power play for some of them, it’s not all about the candidates. It is about their restructuring and taking power away from the people.
Rather this is about “conservative purity” as well as power. Yet today Trump put out a list of possible USSC justice replacements for Scalia and they sure look conservative indeed.