Go to a republican strawpoll some year and get elected to be a delegate. Go to your local monthly meetings and watch how the party is run from the state HQ. Make friends with your district party chairmembers, learn how it really works.

I haven't found words for it, but i walked away with no faith in the system. Anyone that climbs this particular ladder has only one skill and only one goal: manipulation and theft. All political parties end up this way, its by design.