"This will tear apart the Republican Party."
It hasn't yet. The GOP's solution, one that's worked so far, seems to be avoiding doing much of anything for social conservatives or libertarians and getting them both mad at government instead of the porkbarrel RINO-run GOP. Constitutionalist judges seem to be the only solution to the problem, because God knows no elected official cares enough to even try to fix the issues conservatives and libertarians agree upon. PBS, or pork, or government bloat...the government hasn't shrunk since Reagan.
That's the whole point. The MSM template for stories such as this is that the Republican party will be/is torn asunder.
The R party has been playing for the middle as the Democrat party shrinks. As a strategy, this is more effective than acheiving organic growth by creating more conservatives - libertarian, evanglical or otherwise. That is the business of other social institutions. Only when the middle become less important because of greater dominance will the ideas of the base stand a chance of being implemented.
The SCOTUS needs to be reshaped - commerce power needs to be trimmed back, the penumbra needs to be surgically excised, etc., etc. You won't get judges appointed wit the will to do that until you have a solid 60 Senators. Once you restore reasonable constitutional limits on federal power, federal spending will of necesity decrease.
But hey - Rome wasn't built in a day.
Yes, that's why they are all going 3rd party next time (repeat as needed). < /sarc>