True. My point was that the national party actually (incredibly) gets that the 2012 primaries were a disaster.
They get that they were a disaster for Mitt. Every rule change was made looking at what would’ve helped Mitt sail through easier. That meant stopping Ron Paul’s shenanigans, making it easier for the candidate with the most money to sail through and arranging the primaries so that the conservative states have to split the delegates while the liberal states are winner-take-all.
Some of those steps, like drastically lowering the number of debates, have backfired because Trump turned out to be the big money candidate. Right now they would happily add on more debates so that they’d have more chances to knock Trump down without needing to spend money.