[Drew68]

Should Mr. Trump clinch the presidential nomination, it would represent a rout of historic proportions for the institutional Republican Party, and could set off an internal rift unseen in either party for a half-century, since white Southerners abandoned the Democratic Party en masse during the civil rights movement.

And the GOPe isn't going to let this rout happen.

After Trump secures the nomination, they'll run an independent; Romney or Bloomberg, in a handful of key battleground states to throw the election to Hillary. They can play ball with her. She won't upset the applecart. With a textbook of "lessons learned" the establishment will be better prepared to ensure nobody like Trump ever happens again.

That's what we're up against.

[Mariner]

"That's what we're up against."

And there is nothing to stop us from exacting electoral revenge on them via the same, and other methods.