GOPe my foot! It is the GOP! It wasn't the Huguenots or the Druids that put those leaders in power, it was rank and file REPUBLICANS!
The GOPe IS the party. The rank-and-file AREN’T.
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/16/we-choose-the-nominee-not-the-voters-senior-gop-official.html