Another thing I do not understand: How short seighted must Republicans be for gathering behind Trump. The damage to the party in the mid/long run will be disastrous.
It won't be. As a nation we have the memory of goldfish. George W Bush should have destroyed the Republican Party for at least a few more cycles. Instead we voted in Obama once and then gave Republicans back amazing amounts of power during a census year. Then after all their fuckery we gave them the most power they've had since the 1930s. Trump won't do jack shit to the party. Fox News will shill whatever comes next and people will forget and pretend the parties are all the same just because some Democrat did some speech for Wall Street or whatever other nonsense fucking thing people will come up with.
Kasich will probably be praised as some sort of moderate god-king savior of the party and we'll all watch him or someone else that's actually conservative as all hell walk to the White House just because they're not a bumbling fucking moron.