The problem with the GOP isn’t the candidates in particular. The problem with th GOP is it’s NOT different than the Democrats. Remember from Jan 2001 to Jan 2007 the GOP had all three branches, and what happened:
The debt continued to grow
We played a game of poitically correct football with terrorists (i.e. rebuilding Iraq’s utilities while bullets were still flying)
The Bridge to Nowhere
Nothing was done on to secure the border or enforce immigration laws
Wasted a bunch of time on BS, like steroids in baseball
Nothing was done about Planned Parenthood
Interference in personal lives of Americans continued apace, with bans on online gambling, eating horse meat, etc.
If the GOP would position itself as a clear alternative to the status quo, it nor we would be in this mess. Trump, whatever he is, is not the status quo.
Therefore the GOP did it to itself by having a bunch of fat delta males like Erickson and Rove make its platform.
Has anyone been charged with the illegal use of the IRS put penalize political opposition groups and obstruction of justice?
Has anyone been brought to justice for the disaster at Benghazi and the destruction/obstruction of the pertinent records?
Has anything at all been done to slow or stop the unrestricted flood of illegal immigrants into this country?
Is Obamacare still wrecking our country's health care systems?
The sole achievement that occurred under the GOP watch has been that anybody can "marry" anything. Swell.
The GOP died, drowned in its own excrement.