You can’t negotiate peace with a society that wants war. See Israel / palestinians
You can’t negotiate unity with a group that refuses to change their views in order to unify.
If the GOPe’s version of “unifying” is “Do everything the same way we’ve been doing it” then what is the point of unifying?
As an example, the GOPe refuses to change their views on NAFTA. Trump wants it gone. They do not. He won the argument with the voters. They chose him, not Bush, not Rubio, not Kasich etc...Shouldn’t the party leadership reflect the views of the majority of their party? Shouldn’t the party leadership come to the negotiating table willing to make changes?
Instead they continue to snub, denigrate Trump and all of his voters by proxy. I’m not saying they should give him every single thing he asks for but the big planks that he ran on? Immigration, trade deals etc...yeah, they need to change their stance.
Changing their stance on a few of those things would show the voters that the GOPe is actually listening and it would likely result in a more reasonable Trump.
Doubt GOPe wants or even cares about listening. Just as when Ryan “resisted” speakership until he said ok but you have to do it my way. GOPe knew exactly what they were doing then and trying to play same game now.
We have to remember if what I keep seeing on FR is true that Repub Party is a private biz org, then we the people are not hugely important to them in running the Org, we just are the useful tools/slaves to fund it.