The political left wins because their rank and file and their elected reps are ideologically in accord with each other. We on the right are not. We're scattered from center left, to moderate middle, to center right, to far right.
The right wing base runs from center right to far right, while our elected reps (mostly) run from mushy middle to center left. This splintered state of the Republican party is why we continue to lose elections and the country to the degraded left.
The other side figured out the winning dynamics long ago. They forced their moderates and conservatives out of their party and demanded ideological cohesion among their troops. We haven't gotten there yet, but it's high time we did.
We need to throw out our moderates and liberals. Make 'em join the other side if they can't bear to support the fundamental American principles that define our side.
And what better place to start, than at the grass roots level of public forums like this one?
People cannot serve two masters. Nor can groups. Eventually they collapse when they try.
Eventually the grassroots of the right will coalesce. It will likely after the poop impacts the rotating device, but it will happen. And those people will look back on the people today who tried having their cake and eating it too in a less than respectful/reverential light.
We collectively have an opportunity here and now. We can be remembered for fighting the good fight or for moderation/capitulation. If we blow it with Cheshire conservatism/situational ethics and other ‘concerns’, then we deserve the hell we get. And my fondest hope is that the people responsible are remembered properly when the history books are written.