Kasich's minion summed it up - the GOP elite was busy hedging bets rather than going with one, hoping something resembling mainstream would emerge from the 16 candidate field but supporting none of them.  So Trump steals the ticket and they are left with a quagmire that utterly terrifies them.  Sad to say but the GOP looks like it will have to totally implode and crater before it can be rebuilt into a viable party again.  With the 2012 autopsy in the mirror there is the rare spectre likely of yet another one in the windshield.