Republicans aren’t important. They’ve proven that. Conservatives are. If Hillary ran as a Republican, would you vote for her? Of course not. Just because Trump decided that, for whatever self-serving reason, he has decided to run as a Republican, it doesn’t make him a conservative. Only fools think so.
It’s because he wants to identify as a conservative that I am giving him the opportunity to be one. Why on earth would anyone choose to be such knowing the denigration coming from the media and establishment? He’s Right. How far, we can argue till the cows come home and both agree it’s not as Right as Ted. With the waterfall coming though, I prefer a right turn and let’s make the shoreline rather that doing a 180 and trying to paddle against the current right at the moment. We can always portage once we are safe. I hope you appreciate allegory and metaphor. ;-)