If Donald Trump secures the Republican presidential nomination, I predict that the party will experience an electoral disaster on a grander scale, possibly, than Senator Barry Goldwater’s 1964 defeat. The Supreme Court — to which Mrs. Clinton, the overwhelmingly likely Democratic nominee, will appoint at least three justices — will go further to the left and will remain that way for at least a generation.
From a Republican point of view, and from a conservative point of view, it will be an epochal disaster:
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-02-29/the-die-hard-republicans-who-say-nevertrump
Thanks (I guess!) to Aaron C. Brown for alerting me to this piece. Unfortunately, I see my own attitudes abundantly represented in it.