[itsahoot]

He'd have no chance to reach the objective, running as an independent.

Limbaugh nailed it when he said Trump was running as an independent on the GOP ticket.

[Cboldt]

One of the strategies advocated for invoking change has been, for ages, joining the party, participating in local party events, and more or less reform the GOP from the grassroots up. The TEA Party "movement" was somewhat an embodiment of that.

What few people considered, and rightly not because it is out of their means and frankly an incredibly remote possibility, is a strategy of change from the top.

Well, here we are. What was once a remote possibility is a distinct possibility, and maybe a likely outcome.

Not to let up at the grassroots level either, the skunks have been multiplying and infest the entire structure.

I think Limbaugh and the GOPe encouraged the TEA party movement, knowing it could not succeed in exterminating the skunks. The incredible reaction of the press, the so-called conservative pundits, the politicians, etc. to Trump tells me that attacking the problem from the other end, from the top, is not futile. If it was futile, they would encourage it.