[dowcaet]

If Cruz or Trump win the necessary delegates in the primaries and caucuses, and the GOP denies then the nomination you can kiss the Republican Party officially goodbye from being a nationally viable political entity. If four million conservatives stayed home you can double maybe triple that number in the next election if this scenario occurs.

[arthurus]

I expect it to happen. I hope that both Trump and Cruz are already organizing throughout the country for that eventuality and can go third new party with all cylinders firing.

[arthurus]

When it happens if Cruz and/or Trump don’t go immediately to a new party run that has had the groundwork already laid it doesn’t matter whether the republican Party crumbles or not. The whole country is then a rapidly declining and totalirarianizing place with no remedy. The killing will start in earnest shortly after.