I realise that I am now probably a lone voice but when you say....."So there are still a lot of dissatisfied people across the political spectrum"  I believe that this severely understates the reality arising Maimanes mismanagement and Zilles climb down. All those people who were dissatisfied before probably remain so and worse still they are largely irrelevant in the context of the core DA. Despite what the DA FEDEX will claim (spin), these voters are / were never going to side with the DA. You can now add many of those people you refer to rather disparagingly as "liberal" whites to the quantum of the dissatisfied.  Many of those liberal whites will want no part of a political party that allows itself to be so blatantly manipulated by the racially divisive ANC / EFF coalition of kindred spirits. This entire debacle was an exercise to cement and further the political career of Maimane and his claque of Gauteng and KZN aligned FEDEX members