If the party indeed cannot be reformed, what are the options?
How did the Whig’s party come to an end, I no longer remember.
Daniel Webster died. Party split on slavery; South joined Know Nothing and North formed Republican. Enter Abraham Lincoln.
President George W. Bush will be the last Republican POTUS if the party doesn't unify, a desire of many conservatives and socialists.
I believe the party can be reformed, yet it will take a painful process many don't have the stomach or balls for. If it can't be reformed, then it will deservedly die and something else will rise.
Personally, there are bigger things to worry about than people getting offended over something Trump or Cruz says. Democrats make my hair stand up.