The GOPe wins by being marginally “better” that the opponent. Plus, it doesn;t want to win anyway. The conflict between the parties is part real, but mostly illusion to condition the people into believing the vote matters. All the parties have the same goal, 50-100-150 years from now, national boundaries will not exist, except for legacy/feelgood reasons.
I find it amazing that we actually nominated madman McCain! Sarah Palin is the ONLY reason McCain had any enthusiam behind him going into the general election. Then...Romney! A guy who was 180 degrees opposed to everything conservative until the election. Oh, but he ran as a conservative. Totally believable—NOT!
Now we have Jebbie. Don’t ask me what he was thinking. Did Mr. screw-the-base honestly think immigration pimping and Common Core were popular enough to win him the nomination? Apparently. It just goes to show how totally out of touch the GOPe really is.