Go read Josh Marshall

Josh takes note of a NY Times article describing the panic setting in among the GOP Establishment because they can’t find a way to stop Trump. He then tries to explain how and why the party got to this point.

Trump isn’t the real problem. He didn’t bamboozle the heads of the RNC into signing some one-sided contract they can’t live with. The problem is Republican voters. Look at the polls and you see that in virtually every state in the country between 30% and 50% of GOP voters currently back Trump. And only unicorn thinking supports the idea that the 70% to 50% who do not constitute some sort [of] “anti-Trump” faction. That’s the problem, not Trump himself.

The trouble is, it’s becoming a potentially large problem for the entire United States.

Read the whole thing.