We won this election without a bunch of too pure for school conservatives. They missed the point, and the man by a mile, and left us.
Conservatives, alone, will never win anything again, I don’t believe. They split like ribs, agree on no one enough to win.
I get your point. Conservatives can be a bit rigid at times. However, conservatives are, by and large, pretty clear on the basic principles they stand for.
What does the GOP as a whole really stand for? They claim to be conservatives yet they often do just the opposite AFTER THE ELECTION IS OVER.
An one example, the Republican congress gave Obama practically every dime he asked for over the last eight years. I can give you at least a dozen more examples of political hypocrisy and back stabbing the people who vote for them. The point is, what they do is often at odds with what they say and promise to do.
You can claim that “we won this election”. I understand that but its not quite the victory it appears to be. Many Republicans owe their election to eight years of fear, frustration and resentment of Obama. Voters gave the GOP another chance in spite of their misgivings about them and having been disappointed for so many years. Aside from Trump’s great victory, the fact that the GOP won both houses of congress was to some extend due to a political tailwind directly resulting from Obama fatigue.
Republicans have a lot to prove. So far, they have not risen to the occasion nor have they stood tall with their president. But I’ll be the first to applaud them if and when they do and finally stand for something other than their own re-election.