Many live under the fantasy that someone can simply snap their fingers and Politi-Christ will appear to transition the country back to a rational course. They expect it to be pain-free and at no personal cost to themselves.
We see it in ‘businessmen’ who are willing to cater to illegals while bitching about border control. We see it with ‘pro-lifers’ willing to abandon the national fight for votes. We see it in ‘conservatives’ willing to trash conservatives in order to ‘win’ with a moderate.
People, over decades created this mess by voting for ‘moderates’ in the GOP. Extraction is going to hurt. A lot. And putting starting the process by defending/continuing the method by which we got here guarantees one thing.
More pain.
Edit: Putting -OFF- starting the process...
We got "here" by seeing the Federal government take control over local decision-making in every issue, ostensibly "for our own good," i.e., morality. Look at minimum wage laws, a key generator of illegal immigration and lack of work ethic in American kids -- do you realize, that an American teen-ager doesn't have the right to take a job at the corner garage as an apprentice for whatever wage he'll accept? Look at the education system -- Federally trashed. Look at the scope and deadening impact of Federal law on abortion.
Using the Federal government to dictate these things is how we got here.
The Federal government's job should be mere oversight -- otherwise you're looking at continuing the method by which we got here. There's a big risk in the kind of freedom the Founder's counted on, I think, and it couldn't have been easy, but it worked then, and it can work again because it worked on human nature. That big risk is that the Founders' trusted people to morally behave in their own best intersts, and for the most part, they did.
Until welfare. Until Social Security. Until labor laws. Until Rove v. Wade. Until National Education. Until a behemouth tax infrastructure.
If Christian social conservatives want to give it their best shot, they're going to have to risk trust that Americans will be, on balance, moral. A nation where the Fed is even needed to have the last word on social issues ... is ... well, "here." No use continuing the process.