If the rules, known only to the inner apparatchik of the state level GOPe, are perceived by Joe Six-Pack to be unfair against Trump & his voters, the GOPe will be forever damaged. I realize many are fine with that notion, but the nation will not recover from the Supreme Court nominees that will be added by Hillary. Only a Trump/Cruz ticket, as remote as that seems, can win the day for the Rs.
How long will a country of 325 million be made to heel by nine robed tyrants?
All this talk of arcane rules for delegates is no more than rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. The GOPee has lost the benefit of doubt with a sizeable portion of its historical voting base. Those who do not require a color diagram to keep up recognize this. Trump has kept them in the party.
Absent a hostile takeover (Trump) the GOPee is destined for the scrap heap. There's not a lot of basis for historical comparison but I'd guess the GOPee (as is) won't field a presidential candidate in 2028.
All these arcane rules are, as they say, another brick in the wall. And declaring war on Trump? Bad idea. The GOPee is in denial, because what they think they might win will not balance what they will inevitably lose.
IMO, the RATs are headed for the same type of realignment.