“And what party will that be other than a permanent minority one? “
The GOPe loves to be in the minority. They can make back room deals with the corporatists in the Dem party and don’t have to take responsibility for anything.
Screw the middle class.
It's much easier for them that way. Today's GOP would prefer to sit back as a minority and win by the opposition's failures. Notice they always run against something and not for anything. They use ObamaCare, Benghazi as campaign issues but never any ideas of their own such as drilling...etc. They are too afraid and embarrassed about their own ideas to run on them so they hope to win elections by default. It ain't gonna happen. Deep down inside they know it ain't gonna happen. It's so much easier to be the minority party. That's how they think. Sad but true.