Great post. I’d love to see those two issues addressed.
Open primaries was how (IMO) the Republicans were planning to foist Jeb on us. They were not counting on Trump. Or maybe they were, but not in the way that it turned out. They were counting on another beatable candidate like Romney and McLame, who, if by some chance he was elected, would do the bidding of the Democrats.
Unfortunately, Republican leadership in the state is not in any mood to change those two serious problems at present, since it “works” for them.