Grassroots “conservativism” with its radio shows and endless supply of outrage fodder is flourishing. The Republican Party, on the other hand, is a raging dumpster fire. With Jeb!’s campaign circling the toilet bowl, and the remaining Republican Presidential campaigns have taken over planning the future debates, the Republican National Committee (RNC) along with the establishment wing of the party, has been kicked to the curb.
I have come to agree with Delaware Dem, it is going to be Cruz. The religious right and the Tea Party movement are going to get their man for once. I real conservative, and not some squish. In the meantime, the rest of the country (including many centrists and independents) are fleeing the Republican Party in droves.
All of which raises a question – what, if anything, does this mean for the official Delaware arm of the Republican Party? Can someone like Charlie Copeland, and establishment man to the core, really keep the GOP’s lunatic constituencies together? He managed to get Ken Simpler elected, but that was a bit of a stealth campaign that eschewed the typical Republican homophobia and racism draped in red, white, and blue bunting. 
I suppose we’ll learn a lot about the future of the party by the outcome of Bonini v. Lafferty. If Lafferty wins and carries the banner for the DEGOP statewide, I’d say the DEGOP is pretty much done as a statewide institution. That will be a loss of historic proportions. But then again, Bonini winning a primary against Lafferty then losing the general badly doesn’t exactly speak to a renaissance.
It is a mystery, but I at least all of this turmoil isn’t being wasted on people with real world problems to contend with.