That is precisely it
At this point basically everyone but Trump supporters would prefer to lose to Hillary or Bernie than to lose this nomination to Trump.
An onslaught against Trump from every corner for 7 months the likes we’ve never ever witnessed
Followed by the howls that Trump isn’t conservative enough btw from the very same folks who brought us
Bush 41
Dole
Bush 43
McCain
Romney
In that order these past 6 election cycles
When they didn’t work the outcry switches to Trumps not a nice guy or elevated the rancor or doesn’t fight fair even though the rancor has been brought on by their withering attacks from every corner on Trump
He fights back in kind and they whine they are victims and it’s a new low yada yada
I heard Rove and John Scott just now declaring that the incivility between Rubio and Christie had been Trumps fault too somehow
Trump has faced the conservative media establishment and now talk radio and the RNC and the entire Murdoch and Roger Ailes media power vortex and both the GOPe and yet his response to this war is the focus of Fox and those trying to take him down rather than their corrupted objectivity as standard bearers
Win or lose and it sure looks like win from here Trump has altered the landscape forever
If Trump is the nominee, it wouldn't surprise me if the GOP establishment quietly votes for Hillary in the general election. Many of the op-eds from talking heads at NRO and Weekly Standard may as well say as much.
Followed by the howls that Trump isnât conservative enough btw from the very same folks who brought us Bush 41 Dole Bush 43 McCain Romney
I could never fathom the level of cognitive dissonance necessary for someone to support Bush with one side of the brain while the other side of the brain says that some other Republican lacks conservative purity.