Like I said 2/3 of Republicans feel betrayed by the leadership of the party. The elites and their supporters are a very small minority of the party. Meanwhile Trump was getting over 50 percent before Cruz dropped out and has already gotten more actual votes than any other Republican nominee has ever gotten. It’s going to be a choice between Trump and Hillary. I think Trump is the greatest natural politician of my lifetime, and Hillary is maybe the worst. By the time Trump is done with her it will be a landslide, unless she gets indicted or has an aneurism first. Reagan went through this crap too, and the elites even ran a third party candidate against him. The result will be the same.
As for getting Trump’s attention, he was going to meet with the leadership anyway. Giving Ryan some kind of credit for that is like crediting the rooster for making the sun come up.
As Sportin’ Life says is Porgy and Bess, it ‘aint necessarily so. Trump’s rise if like that of William jennings Bryan back in 1896, That too, was a rebellion against the leaders of the Democratic Party, It caught the wave of populism that swept the rural voters of America who were distraught over the effects of the Great Depression of the ‘90s. The difference is that Bryan was a very young man, and Trump is old. The result was a flight by the Elites into the Republican Party.Except for insurgent movement of Teddy Roosevelt in 1912, the Republicans were the majority party until 1930.