Anti-Trump Republicans to launch ad buys in swing states

[Dr. Arch]

As if some other Pub candidate could win if Trump dropped out.

Trump is the Republican Party's best chance. If he fails, the Dems will rule for decades and transform the country through their social engineering policies. The Pubs as we know them will never win an election again. They will go the way of the Whigs.

I think your sense of fatalism is a sign that you are desperate to keep the Republican on the trajectory that it's on, no matter how hopeless it clearly is.  It's an attitude that Ann Coulter and other tea party members have expressed, but I don't really understand it.  It is possible for Republicans to win nationwide again. But in order to do so, Republican presidential candidates, apparatchiks, and voters will have to be willing to make their case to black and brown people if they want to reverse the trends of states like Florida and Georgia.  They can do it without becoming Democrat-lite.  They just have to learn to talk to them in a way that resonates with their aspirations, and not at them, as Trump has been doing.

I voted for Mitt Romney in 2012, and while I have shifted somewhat to the left since then, I really don't want this country to become a one-party state.  I worry deeply about the GOP resigning itself to becoming the party of white grievance, only clinging to power through gerrymandering (which may not be a permanent solution), and by relying on lower minority turnout in midterm years.  And I further fear that reality might come into fruition if Republicans don't work overtime to expand their appeal to non-white demographics immediately after Trump gets clobbered on November.  

Well said.