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Yeah: “Here’s why we can’t win.”
Thanks, still some of us are so deplorable we keep trying.

The OP has an idea that you seem it sufficient to disparage by saying nothing more than “Oh but our masters rule!”.

Yeah, I’m too much the philosopher to understand what’ll be going on but I’ll show up at my GOP Party’s meeting and do whatever I can figure out to do to help.

You can feel so justified staying home at your’s (and if it’s Cook County who can blame you).

Don’t put words in my mouth. Of course we can win, but we need the right tactics. Playing the enemy’s game simply plays into their hands, as does ignoring history.

Franklin Roosevelt’s rapid conversion from Constitutionalism to the doctrine of unlimited government is an oft-told story. But I am here concerned not so much by the abandonment of states’ rights by the national Democratic Party — an event that occurred some years ago when that party was captured by the socialist ideologues in and about the labor movement — as by the unmistakable tendency of the Republican Party to adopt the same course. […] Thus, the cornerstone of the Republic, our chief bulwark against the encroachment (on) individual freedom by Big Government, is fast disappearing under the piling sands of absolutism.

The Republican Party, to be sure, gives lip service to states’ rights. We often talk about “returning to the states their rightful powers”; the Administration has even gone so far as to sponsor a federal-state conference on the problem. But deeds are what count, and I regret to say that in actual practice, the Republican Party, like the Democratic Party, summons the coercive power of the federal government whenever national leaders conclude that the states are not performing satisfactorily. …

— The Conscience of a Conservative (1960), pp. 24-25

If involving oneself in one’s local GOP can overcome this decades-old machine, then explain how. There is a lot of foreign money stacked against us in that game, just so you know, including at local level.