[Boogieman]

You’re free to start your own party and pick the delegates any way you want.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

You’re free to start your own party and pick the delegates any way you want.

That’s what Ross Perot did, for example.
News Flash! The Reform Party was created for no other purpose than to promote the candidacy of Ross Perot. The purpose of any political party is to promote the political interests of its actual (not necessarily its nominal) constituency.

For example, the Democrat Party purports to be for poor people and minorities, but it systematically sabotages them, and has since memory of living man runneth not to the contrary. As seen in

Losing Ground:

American Social Policy, 1950-1980
- Charles Murray

The “Great Society” was a signal success of the Democrats, if you understand that its real objective was to keep blacks out of the middle class, as defined below.

Likewise the Republican party nominally is for the middle class - those without any pretensions of patronizing anyone else, but also with no tolerance for being patronized. But we have been seeing, and realizing that we should have seen earlier, the extent to which the Republican Party has been dominated by time servers who go along and get along, in a Washington Generals v. Harlem Globe Trotters sense, with Democrats.