… For Republicans, whether they like it or not, this is a binary choice: It’s Trump or a Democrat in the White House. The cost of losing the presidency, in Republican minds, is that taxes will go back up, regulation will go back to what they saw as an onerous level under President Obama, and liberals would be put on the federal bench instead of conservatives. That is why criticism of Trump within the Republican Party is seen as heretical among many, a form of treason and justification for a GOP officeholder to get a conservative primary. CONT.
Charlie Cook