The republican party cannot count on continued support on the basis of being a “leser evil(TM)”. What we really need is runoff elections and at least the legal possibility of some third party rising up to replace the dems.
The GOP keeps tempting fate by jerking the base around and expecting us to come crawling back every time they threaten us with Hillary. They took a beating in the last election and apparently haven’t learned a thing.
Until we get a system for runoff elections, unless we want to keep surrendering to RATS, we must hang together. I despise RATS more than I despise any Republican.