I get the feeling it’s like the DNC not backing Sanders or trying to push Hillary through even though she had some not insignificant baggage. The RNC knows he’s got name recognition and beating the free publicity would probably be difficult. Also, if they don’t there’ll be blood in the water from their small fringe extremist groups.

So, the RNC is going to (probably ‘have to’) back him, for the free publicity he’s already getting and support from their extreme right*, and make him a house hold name for the republicans. He already won once, and some people will romanticize his last 4-years in office (idk how TF they can do that, with everything we saw. But FoxNews’ propaganda machine was and will be running on overdrive).

They’ll continue to push the whole ‘two tier Justice system’, ‘political persecution’, and ‘if he could come for Trump (regardless if he’s a corrupt and treasonous mobster), he could come for you (hopefully just a normal law abiding citizen)…’ narratives. Super easy, but terrible all around.

You’d think losing a fair fight would breed competition toward supplying better and better competitors. But, they don’t want to compete fair. They can’t win fair. The Democratic Party took up the progressive liberal flag, and educated and large mixed communities heavily weigh toward that banner.

They’d literally have to shift their goals left to be less extreme, and just wait for their party, and the democratic one, to adjust. They’d lose the next election, sure. But, they’d certainly be able to pick up the next one if they kept pushing the new message over 4-8 years.

And that’s only if they cared about their constituents. But, they don’t. They only care about the consolidation of power in their minority group of leaders.