If you were thinking of running, knowing that your base is as fickle as it is, would you?
WE are the problem.
Yes, in the immortal words of Pogo: “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
I’ve gone Galt by moving to Canada (initially somewhat by accident but remaining deliberately), into somewhat northern Ontario. Between the educational system undermining the youth; the cities growing, being dominated by people more than one generation off of the land, and in most states politically swamping the rural areas; and an unhealthy electronic culture, I don’t see any likely way of solving the thing, Electing Trump (or in a lesser way Cruz) strikes me as the political equivalent of pulling one’s goalie: a necessary move to improve one’s not terribly good odds of escaping from a position that is untenable in the medium-to-short term.