Deep crisis

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A bright future ahead:

But even more Republicans say they’re pessimistic for the conservative movement. Republicans won’t be able to immediately turn to an obvious standard-bearer in 2020, like Democrats had in Clinton this cycle. That could mean another crowded, fractured GOP field in four years featuring candidates like Rubio, Cruz, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and possibly Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).

Also, the fault lines that divided the party this cycle — populist outsiders vs. the GOP establishment — will still exist after November, the Southern lawmaker said. And the groups that foment or “profit from” intraparty division, including the Freedom Caucus, Club for Growth and Heritage Action, will still be around long after Trump, the source said.

Tim Miller, a former communications director to Jeb Bush's presidential campaign who helped create the Never Trump movement, said that while Republicans could conceivably unite in opposition to Clinton, that won’t fix the party’s long-term problems. “That will help with some of the healing but it will not fix some of the long-term wounds that have been shown to divide this party,” Miller said. “Clinton will in some ways continue to exacerbate some of the worst impulses and conspiracy theories which got us Trump in the first place rather than a thorough, credible critique of her.  Miller also argued that a Trump defeat might not end his influence within the GOP.

Gloom sets in for GOP | TheHill

The final two standing were Cruz and Trump, that's basically all you have to know. One unbending hard-line ideologue (of which there are more, the Freedom Caucus, Club for Growth and Heritage Action are all unbending zealots), versus a loose canon who is increasingly unhinged. 

Somewhere deep down, there is a decent Conservative movement possible, but the amounts of nonsense like climate denial and trickle down economics, not to mention the host of conspiracy theories and uncompromising attitude, it's not the present day Republican Party.