“This could be good. It would be the official demise of the GOPe”
Maybe, but only after losing the 2016 election. If the GOP-e backstab him, he will go 3rd party for sure, fully knowing Hillary is the next President.
No, not sure of that at all. Hillary is hugely unpopular. Trump is controversial, but a celebrity. I’m not sure he’d lose. It would depend on how many Bushies the GOPe could convince to stay with the Republicans. It could reshape the GOP the way the rise of the Republicans reshaped the Whigs in the 1850s. Too soon to tell.