“Well, I am not the pragmatic sort.”
So you must really hate politics then.
Not to anger you, but it is the take my ball and go home voters like you who give the Dems visions of sugar plumbs when they sleep.
And likewise, no offense to you, but it is your "pragmatism" that has given us a party so full of RINOs that they now unabashedly attack major planks of the party, and threaten to overthrow the Reagan legacy.