I know your pain, but come on, you sound like the MSM.
Elitist GOP kingmakers, whatever that is, do not "put" candidates on the ballot.
The voters do. It's up to us.
I wish I could come and visit the planet you live on. Reagan was the only recent GOP President who was not coronated by the kingmakers. And they tried damned hard to make him split power with Gerald Ford, leaving Reagan only running a few things like the Bureau of Indian Affairs and such.