Any one of the other candidates could have beaten Hillary before Trump and his wolf-pack destroyed the Republican Party. This pretender has made Hillary electable again, which was probably the whole goal of his campaign.
Ted Cruz has fought Mitch McConnell and the RINO GOPe for years, but he never tried to destroy the party itself. He never tried to destroy conservatism, he always held up conservative principles.
Trump seems intent on rendering the party itself apart. Trump has sullied and stomped on conservatism every step of the way. No reason to see why he would ever stop.
Of course he won't stop because he doesn't believe in any aspect of conservatism, and will clearly continue to try to destroy it.
The sad thing for me, is that because there was so much anger at the Republican party, a group of fearful, angry people jumped at the chance to destroy it and have followed Trump into the abyss on his path of deceit and duplicity that he was an 'outsider.'
HE wanted to destroy the Republican party from the POV of a DEMOCRAT, not a principled conservative, and too many people swallowed his lies, so that conservatism itself is now in the process of being destroyed.
Instead of trying to reform and improve the Republican party, and correct what was wrong about it, they have helped their master stomp it into oblivion, make us all a laughing stock and usher Hillary into the WH.