What about the country? If your give up strategy is adopted how many innocent Americans, Europeans, Israelis, Iraqis die so you can see the left implode again.
The price of your strategy is too high. The GOP should run as conservatives when they do they win.
The evidence for that is mixed. When Republicans run as conservatives in conservative states, they win. When they run as conservatives in liberal states, they lose. When Democrats run as liberals in liberal states, they win. When they run as liberals in conservative states, they lose.
The reality is, most people like their pet government programs, and don't really want smaller government. And most people don't like radical change. Shrinking government when people don't want it shrunk is a recipe for electoral failure. That's a lesson the Republicans seem to have learned. If they keep control of the purse strings, they have the chance to direct policy to encourage individual responsibility and individual choice. The long term effect of this would be to reduce demand for government.