I’m as disillusioned and unhappy as every conservative but here are some facts often overlooked when discussing third parties:
1. Local, county and state party apparatus is controlled by statist. They dictate the rules all the way up to the national convention level. If by chance a grassroots organization happens to get rules changes implemented courts and or party honchos knock it down.
2. Both parties have authored and passed bills to deter third party growth. Have you ever wondered why no real third party has taken root? Because the Oligarchy has made it all but impossible by throwing out legal barriers to discourage and sap resources.
3. To fight these obstacles you need to have serious backing and control of information delivery. Most third party movements have neither and are unwilling to fight a gorilla offensive.
4. The progressives have fought a one hundred year long battle to win the hearts an minds of the elites and leech class all the while memorizing what is right and Godly. They have no intention of giving up peacefully and will weather small set backs to achieve their ends.
5. If you want to win you must roll up your sleeves, educate the fence sitters, and wipe out the rest. Either by crushing their ideas (unlikely), wait for the second coming, or go biblical and ground their bones into the earth so they don’t threaten mankind again. This is awful business and it cost the same price we paid two hundred and fifty some years ago.
“1. Local, county and state party apparatus is controlled by statist. They dictate the rules all the way up to the national convention level. If by chance a grassroots organization happens to get rules changes implemented courts and or party honchos knock it down”
This is why working to save the GOP is not an option. It must be a as you put it a guerrilla campaign against both national parties until one is so weak it dies off. The GOP is an easier target as it is infested with a small cadre of liberals at all levels and they are distinct minority in comparison to the GOP rank and file. They will never willing relinquish any power it must be taken from them which will be damned near impossible. But if you diminish and marginalize what is left of the GOP as a party to make it irrelevant another party will fill the vacuum left by the death of the GOP.