Look at the names involved, from Kristol to Brooks to Matalin to Noonan on the "conservative" side. Look at the institutions involved, from the NYT to the Washington Post to CNN, AP, etc, etc - these are all scrambling furiously in exposition of some reason for this dissatisfaction other than their own performance. Cruz might as well have saved his breath - they're not listening and will still be rationalizing the whole thing away after they get thrashed in November.
What will come will no doubt be described as a "wave of repression" from the current offenders. The same Free Speech that they've done their best to shut down will once again be accorded a golden place in the political pantheon because it's their free speech that matters and no one else's - that's one of the main issues. Certain political cudgels we've come to detest will go out of fashion for awhile: the persistent accusations of racism, of privilege, of bigotry against whatever bizarre splinter group the perpetrators can conjure up - those clubs will still be there awaiting another environment as congenial as the 0bama administration's has been. The thugs and the fakes and the bullies won't go away; the best we can hope for is that they'll be a little quieter for a time.
Or a wave of very real anger, unaddressed and unabated, can sweep through the whole rotten system and cause real damage as well as real good. If the DC establishment doesn't start listening, and the argument that it's already too late is getting difficult to contest, that's likely to happen and that can spin out of control very quickly. Revolution is exciting until you have to clean up afterward.
Exactly right — and misdirected anger could in fact result in a Convention of the States and/or secession efforts, which considering the trolls and subversives and corruption everywhere surely would not result in a stronger USA but quite the opposite. I’m sure Marx and Mohammad would want a COS about now.