My Op-Ed in The Hill: Only Kasich nomination can save the GOP

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Nathan, nothing will save the GOP from itself this election cycle. TRUMP is a mainstream Republican because he represents exactly the sort of unfocused angry voters the Republican Party has become addicted to these last few years in its quest for electoral victory at any cost. Until the GOP is able to at least climb the first of the twelve steps of recovery, I won't be enabling it at all with my votes. That is why I recently changed my long time independent avatar to a Democratic avatar. By focusing upon the candidates the GOP selects rather than the voters the party reaches out to, it's clear that you personally have not yet accepted the fact that your party has an addiction. Not that you are alone in your failure. I have yet to hear any Republican who has taken that first step. No doubt there are a few, but they certainly aren't getting heard. There are plenty like yourself who can see the consequences of the party's addiction and who deplore those consequences. But also like yourself, they seek to treat the symptoms rather than come to grips with the cancerous addiction that eats at the party and is destroying its long term prospects as a presidential party.

At least TRUMP is not delusional about the types of voters the Republican Party has become addicted to. The problem with him is that he embraces that addiction and feeds it to his own benefit just as he has with other addictions other people he has taken for a ride have had.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

You touched upon it, but it didn't come across as the focus of your piece. You focused upon which candidate could present Republican positions positively without concerning yourself over why those positions have tended to appeal principally to the angry white male vote. It's not as simple as the pandering you wish were the problem; if that were the problem then the angry white male voters would never have come to identify themselves as Republican in the first place.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

It's not the rules, it's the message. Your problem with TRUMP appears to be that he's clearly articulating the parts of the Republican message that until now major figures in the party have chosen to say in coded language. At least with TRUMP there is no need for a secret decoder ring which is a large part of his appeal. You say you don't want the crazies in the party but you haven't said how you'd do that other than procedurally.