They will always be at least roughly half of our population and need a means of organizing to pursue their interests politically.
I haven't actually heard any scary threat that we're trying to save the Republican Party. But we would if that turned out to be the most promising way of returning our nation to the stability we used to have -- before the GOP was taken over and traditional conservative thinking was purged and replaced with various types of RW corruption and extremism.
In other words, I don't see this as an issue. New, rational conservative party or reborn old one, they'd both draw the same people. What they'd have to have is new leadership. (The intractable MAGA extremists, shrunk by then, might retreat somewhere else.)
The real issue is saving our democracy. The answer MUST include rebuilding the "bipartisan" electoral majority we once had of both liberal and conservative mainstream elements that were capable of coming together when needed to fend off rises of extremist and subversive factions -- and to maintain a stable, workable balance between optimal freedom and supportive government. In our days of great progressive growth and wellbeing, we had that.
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