[grania]

The Republicans who run the show, if they wanted to save the party, would cede the nomination to Trump and spend their money, time, and energy on finding candidates for DC whom voters can stand.

It does seem that if the establishment Republicans are going down (they're going down), they'd rather lose than step aside.

[chris37]

Losing doesn’t matter to the GOP.

The GOP loses 100% of the time, every battle on every issue.

The only thing that matters to them is not shutting down the government.