These cynical GOP insiders really really hate their conservative base.
Ok, you don’t like our hand picked boy, maybe you’d like another Bush.
They look at the democrats and come down with bad case of Base Envy.
“These cynical GOP insiders really really hate their conservative base”
They certainly look down on them.
My impression of the insiders that I have met is that they have a lot more in common with their Democratic Party counterparts than they do with the conservative voters whose support they feel entitled to.