Their toil has not even begun. Can you imagine the s***storm coming when Chinless McConnell loses the Primary?
GOPe has a long-run purpose here...They are going to punish any conservatives who defeat their candidates in the Primaries by shafting them in the Generals. They are fine and dandy with losing every race to the Rats if that’s what it takes to teach the Young Turks a lesson.
If McConnell loses the primary, he is going to want to end all party support and funds of those conservatives he dislikes so much. And he has the internal power to try too.