“Attacking your friends is not a good way to influence people.”
Sounds like they were just ‘fair weather friends’.
You need those fair weather friends to win an election. You can’t win an election with only a hardcore constituency.
So basically, you want to anoint a king, and they can do what they want. In the United States, we are supposed to go by the Constitution, not leaders, and leaders are supposed to work for us, not the other way around. You want to give that all up?
So back in 2005, Bush nominated Harriet Miers to SCOTUS, and conservatives pushed back, and he nominated Alito, instead.
According to you, those conservatives were disloyal and evil? Today, Alito is one of only two conservatives on SCOTUS?