re: race wasn’t close?
2016 was the closest primary since Goldwater-Rockefeller.
What infuriates the establishment is that Trump, Cruz, Carson (the top 3 for most of the race) are all unacceptably anti-establishment and they had over 70% of the primary vote.
Then consider Rubio was the ideal establishment candidate Crist.
The conservative establishment doesn’t want to admit that they are as out-of-touch with real people as the moderate establishment is.
“Trump, Cruz, Carson...are all unacceptably anti-establishment”
One of those three is not like the others.