keep trying. the gop owns trump and everything he does. he is merely a symptom of 30 years of filling peoples minds that the government, liberals, minorities, other countries, muslims, boogey man du jour, are the root of all evil and that any deviation from conservative principles (whatever they are at any given moment) is heresy.The only thing I surprisingly got that I've always wanted was a gut full of laughter at the SJWs putting LSU fans to shame at melting.
I have this ultra conservative uncle who when he tells me his candidate I know who won't win. Granted Cruz didn't win but he was very much in the running. If we are really down to Trump and Cruz at the end then something more than "Christians who feel persecuted" lead to that result because both were way further to the right than any republican nominee in the last 40 years. So the Obama administration is very much to blame for that shift in the typical republican voter. Now it could be argued the Democratic Party is to blame to why he won by putting up the most flawed candidate in history against him.
we saw the results of this thinking with w, and are going to seeing it ten-fold with trump.