True conservatives would leave before moderate Republicans. Trump is the most moderate the GOP has seen in a long time. And I don't know if true conservatives would really let Hillary win.
Agreed,
Why would moderate Republicans leave the party when Trump is essentially one of them.
Can we dispel with this fiction that Trump is a moderate already? Wanting to build a wall and ban all Muslim immigration cancels out whatever moderate views on other issues he may have.
Trump is a moderate on issue positions, but he is not a moderate in style.
Folks put too much emphasis on style. Mitt Romney has been labeled a moderate in some circles, but his campaign platform was to the right of anything Goldwater or Reagan ever dreamed of. It was the most conservative campaign in history. There are times when, after hearing from "conservatives" how Mitt Romney wasn't really one of them, I look back on the positions Mitt took in 2012 and want to ask them just what more they wanted from their Presidential candidate that they didn't get.
