You have a fertile imagination. Delegates (not representatives) with detailed commissions from their states will attend.
With commissions that don’t rock the boat of the kind of folks who support the GOP politicians who send them, the socially liberal crony capitalists of the Goldman Sachs, Apple, Facebook elites.
So much of politics in the mainstream Uniparty of D’s and R’s, “Progressive” and “Conservative” has turned out to be a feel good illusion, a soma, a drag of weed.
Some of “Antifa” is rooted in the knowledge that the regular politicians won’t move the country to the Left as far as they want because it would rock the crony capitalist boat.
“You have a fertile imagination. “
How’s this for an imagination? Picture a couple of billionaires with a war room and a few hundred employees detailing and tracking every subtle nuance. Those detailed commissions, that’s where the bribes would start with appropriately vague wording wordsmithed through the dark hearts of a dozen well trained and knowledgeable lawyers. What we’re talking about is essentially a battle plan. On the conservative side a few meetings and some suggestions. On the other side... Bond villains. No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. I just don’t see anything on the conservative side that is likely to be as big, well funded or unethical as what the other side has already proven it can field. Okay, color me skeptical. But there is too much at stake for both sides for conservatives to risk a convention of states. I’d prefer to go with what we have and make it work better. With the political clout we have now, we could make it work.