“It would help if we didn’t have a RINO running on our ticket.”
I doubt that McCrazy is even a RINO — he more resembles a closet Democrat.
That's not to say the GOP couldn't fade away, just as the Dems came very, very close to utterly fracturing about four years ago---but it's highly unlikely. What I see in the posts above are whines and complaints that the GOP hasn't been conservative enough (true), but which don't address the MAIN point of the analysis, which is that those who tended to be conservative were married, older, and above all, religious. Now, I don't care if it's the "Conservative Party" or the Save the Whales Party, if you don't reverse that trend of married/religious people, you will simply get more liberals. And that's a fact.
Rather than invoking some nonsensical model of pre-Constitutional times (which is historically inaccurate), it would do all conservatives a better service to ask, "What can be done about reversing those two trendlines of religion and marriage?"