[JesusIsLord]

It is OUR Party. We built it from the ground up. And, they will never be able to get control of it EVER AGAIN

Not sure what you mean by "OUR Party". IMO, the Republican party is made up of conservatives, America-first people, county-club-republicans swamp-dwellers aka GOPe and RINOS. On the other hand, Republican party 'leadership' is made up primarily of swamp-dwellers aka GOPe and RINOS.

[Slyfox]

The Country Club Republicans have had control of the GOP leadership since before Reagan. During Reagan's term they did everything they could to man-handle his staff and his objectives, led by GHW Bush. Reagan nicely elbowed them out of the way with his most important stuff like his speeches and his work with JPII.

I have a friend who is a political advisor and he was at a meeting which featured Karl Rove. Rove hated Phyllis Schlafly with a passion and spent at least 20 minutes during his presentation telling all present how awful she was to their plans. And how she always got in the way of their actions. My friend was shocked at Rove's display.

Phyllis was one of the prime leaders of grassroots conservative action and she was roundly hated by the Country Clubbers and the Never Trumpers.

The CC and NTers are NOT the ones who built the GOP. That was people like Phyllis and regular grassroots. Karl Rove and his ilk prefer to let the little people do the grunt work and then step out in front and take credit for what we were doing the whole time.

I have been in grassroots politics for at least 40 years and I served as an election judge for at least 20 years. I have served on resolution and platform committees. I have been close to those Rove types and to be honest THEY are the reason the GOP was not as successful as we could have been, especially between Reagan and Trump.

We have had Trump for 4 years and he has totally transformed the GOP as close to what it was originally designed to be - as a mirror of the Constitution.

Before McCain chose Sarah Palin as his VP, the grassroots leaders in the GOP had absolutely no interest in getting behind him. But, the moment Sarah Palin was chosen the entire tenor of the convention was uplifted. Palin was the grassroots candidate. Too bad McCain was such an ass, if he was more like Sarah we would have won that election.

Trump has been such a surprise and a relief among the true grassroots leadership. He has elbowed the pretenders out of the way and has given all the Phyllis Schlafly types front seats at the leadership table where they belong.