Curly Hoagland is having his 20 minutes of fame. He claims to be an expert in GOP rules, but he somehow always overlooks out the most important part of the preamble to the GOP rules:
BE IT RESOLVED,...
It is the intent and purpose of these rules to encourage and allow the broadest possible participation of all voters in Republican Party activities at all levels and to assure that the Republican Party is open and accessible to all Americans.
Yes. What is different now in the information age is the electorate can be informed. For instance we are sitting in our own houses discussing this on an internet board open to anyone in the world. That kind of openness and availability of information was not even dreamed of even a few decades ago.
The electorate doesn’t need party bosses to tell us how to vote anymore. We can research it ourselves.