If this happens, then it is end of the GOP.
But then I suspect that the GOP is a lot more the “Gay Old Party” than the “Grand Old Party”, so it will come to that.
The problem is the DC elites. I don’t know about state level GOP people. But the DC elite crowd is primarily rotten to the core. Seems as though even ones who started out with principles got compromised, gave in, gave up, and sold out.
I don’t mean that there aren’t some principles conservative Republicans. But we need many, many more.