Many times people on this forum called for a Third Party to replace the ‘G’ OP. I told them we would need key leading figures to make that happen.
We are getting very close to that now as well as a constitutional amendment that allows official excoriation of corrupt and wildly unpopular politicians and judges in some strictly limited way. [More on excoriation in a followup post.]
Back to Third Parties ...
Looking back in history, even Teddy lacked the clout to replace the RNC with his Progressive Party. Thank God he failed, but being progressive was very popular back then.
Communication has come a long way since Teddy Roosevelt. Media power can come from credibility as much as money now.
If the RNC meddles with this primary in any significant way, Trump could convince talk radio to back him up in forming a new party. Get enough talk radio hosts together with Trump’s team along with other conservatives, debate on the internet, and they could negotiate a more accountable ‘By the People’ party system that decimates them in the next off-year election.
Third parties are pointless and counterproductive in our system. In the short term a 3rd party would mean democrat victory (which is death at this point). In the long term everyone who was a Republican would move to the new party (or the new party would collapse) and it would be the Republican party with a different name. That’s the way it works, the vast majority of Northern Whigs became Republicans just like virtually all former Federalists became Whigs. The longer the split went on, the worse for the country. Look at Canada in the 90’s.
And there is zero indication of any major constitutional changes coming any time soon.
I’ll be backing the Republican nominee for President. Anyone on the right who mounts a third party bid is a scumbag trying to throw the election to Hillary like Ross Perot.