Katie, there are plenty of conservatives in this country at the grassroots level. They’ve been there all this time. They’re just not gonna put up with CONservative globalist quisling puppets like you, that idiot Erick Erickson, and backstabber Ben Sasse. Katie, you and the CONservative punditry class along with CONservative politicians in CONgress are no different than any of the RINOS because all of you have the same jello spines from rolling over to the Democrats all the time.
Sure, people can argue about how conservative politically active people are and which ones are real conservatives and which ones aren't.
The bigger problem is that the country as a whole isn't as conservative as it once was. Contrary to what Ted Cruz and a lot of other people thought, being the most conservative -- however you want to define that -- doesn't win elections nowadays.