You all completely underestimated Donald Trump two months ago and you're paying the price for it now. He is in it to win it and if you want to stop him you can't just wait and hope he goes away on his own.
At this point, given how weak Jeb is, your best anti-Trump option might be Ben Carson.
Seriously. I made a thread like a month ago saying Trump was here to stay and all the Republicans here trotted out 538 articles about flavors of the month. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to look at the fundamentals of this race and the polls to see that Trump will last through the first contests. Now they're saying that once people have their ballots in hand, they'll second guess their decision. Nope. If he's polling on top before Iowa, he will win Iowa. It's that simple. Why does the GOP live in perpetual denial? Oh yes, because they have created an alternate universe where they are spoon fed lies and exist in an echo chamber.
Somewhat paradoxically, this same alternate universe helped produce Trump. Funny, huh? Nothing better than an uneducated, angry base of working class voters fed up with the establishment elites who love their trickle down economics and widening the gap between the wealthy and everyone else. Have the poor GOP voters finally seen through the charades? Is the Reagan coalition crumbling?