The Republican Elite cannot understand the Trump Phenomenon.
They have betrayed their base support time after time and prepare to do it again by ignoring its overwhelming support for Trump.
Their betrayal is plenty of reason to fill the American people with utter contempt for them, but their bad judgment and inability to comprehend what's going on is sufficient reason for any honest person to ignore them. In fact, the stupidity of the Republican Establishment is downright scary.
That's not stupidity, they're just protecting their place at the Trillion-dollar feed trough.
After seven or eight years of systematically looting the Treasury, even the losers' share has got to be pretty rich.