“Kind of hard to say whether they’re trying to help Trump or keep him from winning to position Cruz in 2020”
there is no 2020 for ted or ryan or anyone else if Trump loses: the GOP is dead.
Yeah, there’s that. The country will implode if Hillary wins.
Just wait until they try to run Yheb! again.
The GOP is being reborn as we speak. And for 2020, assuming Trump loses, look for Pence. No reason to think all these people at these rallies will disappear.
If Trump loses this may be our last voting experience.
And us along with them.
I do not think people grasp the depth of what will be done to the country should Her Heinous win the election. The first time around, the Clintons used the IRS as a weapon not just against all the conservative think tanks and organizations, but also against any average shmoe who ran afoul of them simply by screaming something in public toward them. She will be in possession of FEC records showing all of the Trump contributors. Do the math because she will.
Another thing from the first time around is the way Hillarycare died in Congress. The lesson from that she learned is not to rely on Congress for things you want, a notion encapsulated in Paul Begala's 1998, “Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool.” You think Obama used and abused executive orders? Wait till you see the blizzard she's going to unleash helped in large measure by multiple Congresses, mostly Republican, over the 18 years since who have given more and more power to the executive branch.
Finally, though only for the purposes of this posting, she's going to pack the Supreme Court with the worst of the worst that a cowed Republican Senate will eagerly appoint. Then her leftist minions will bring multiple suits that her packed Court will use to strike down everything she doesn't like or threatens her agenda in any way.
So anyone who thinks there will be a 2020 to maneuver toward is either a complete and utter moron or the type of collaborationist who will go along with her schemes and meekly lose in a landslide blaming elements of the underground and illegal Freerepublic.com, outlawed in 2017, for the thrashing.