“If Trump wins, what does the “Conservative Media Establishment†like NRO, Erick Erickson et al do? Mass retirements?”
One can only hope! These a$$holes have been the instrument by which the GOPe has kept control of the Republican Party. And it’s not about “conservatism!” It’s about the systematic disenfranchisement of “conservative voters” by people for whom procaiming conservatism is just a mechanism to dupe good, but uninformed people.
It occurred to me that “Conservative Media” serves the same purpose “Civil Right” leaders do for the Democrats. Their sole purpose in life is to keep a certain group of voters quietly on the GOP Establishment plantation.