‘If Trump would call for a meeting of patriots of the Republic, and then meet in Ripon, Wisconsin, the Republican Party would be doomed.’
you are calling for a re-creation of the 1856 election, in which the Whigs and pubbies each ran a candidate, and together gave the election to the dem Buchanan...
do you seriously think Trump forming a patriot party is going to get 100 percent of the opposition to the dems...?
Yes, it gave us Buchanan. But it also gave us the Civil War and Lincoln and the resolution to a problem that divided the States. We may be headed toward a new Civil War, but Trump, with all his warts, is the only Lincoln on the scene.