Blocking Mr. Trump will cause the GOP nominee to lose between 30 and 40 states, plus loss of the Senate. An yuuge disaster.
Nominating Mr. Trump will cause the GOP nominee to lose between 40 and 50 states, plus loss of both the Senate and House. Yuuge disaster squared.
But ironically, the latter course just might turn out to be better for the long-run health of true conservatism, because it might have the potential to obliterate Trumpisticism once and for all.
Still, either outcome is perhaps too gruesome to contemplate.
What is Trumpism?
Your math stinks. Take a look at an Electoral Vote map overlay onto the current delegation map. Cruz still has many minor (3-6 EV wins) and one biggie. He would lose key battleground states and some of the South. There is not a path for GE victory in November.
You think that building a wall, deporting illegals, leveling the playing field on trade, reining in the deficit are “DEM” ideals. You think that halting the importation of terrorists and the M.E. invasion to American soil is a bad thing.
Your dude was mum on all those issues until Trump gained some yuge traction.
But somehow pushing Amnesty and TPA through Congress, giving potus’44 what ever he wants for peace deals, siding with the BLM over our 1st amendment rights are all “Conservative” traits? I guess Trumpism makes us all flaming liberals and not true Conservatives in your small book.
And I’m not even mentioning that your dude would be challenged and DQ’d when the DNC got a whole of him. He is not a NBC and should have gotten himself either a Hawaiian BC or a resolution (nothing-letter) from Congress like the previous actor-McCain.
.....Or a “historical first”, that Trump could very well get in.
This "true conservatism" of which you speak...where is it to be found?
You true adherents to Conservative, Inc...you just don't get it.
Trump is not the cause, Trump is a symptom of the cause...and the cause isn't going anywhere, regardless of the fortunes of Trump.