Romney rewrote the GOP rules in favor of the GOP-E at the last convention over the objections of conservatives, but WE had voted him the delegate strength to do so.
It will take at least 2 victorious GOP presidential conservative campaigns to undo that damage.
So, the hope for a party takeover seems to greatly diminish for me. I’m left looking at an alternative: (1) The libertarians are the most active, but with a few platform items I just can’t compromise. (2) The Constitution Party has a better platform but they are not serious at all...a gather and potluck kind of social group. (3) A new party should be started at dogcatcher level and grown to state legislatures, then to national, then to presidential. It will NOT work the other way around due to the nature of our Constitution.
Those aren’t great choices.
There are no political solutions to this nation’s problems. Politicians of every stripe refuse to fix anything.
I believe a total collapse is coming. It may not be for a few more decades, it might be in a few years, but this nonsense will have serious and disastrous consequences. Conservatives need to prepare for surviving it in the hopes that our domestic enemies mostly don’t.