RINO Republicans have been doing that since George Will was a wee lad. Got them real far, dint it?
I like Trump BECAUSE he fights back.
Well, since I'm five years older than George Will, born and raised in New York State, I've observed the outcomes of several well-known Republican governors and Presidents under whose governance I lived. Most of them until 1988 were very effective and governed well.
I think your point is prejudicial and ignores the successes of Thomas E. Dewey, Nelson Rockefeller, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan. Pete duPont's temporary transformation of Delaware should not be ruled out, but its sticking coefficient was quite low, as was Reagan's in California. Most particularly, Reagan always acted like a gentleman, and as Chief Executive 1981-1988 did direct the winning of the Cold War, harvesting the fruit from ground effectively plowed by Richard Nixon and fertilized by the manure of the failed Carter administration.
Regarding the Bushes, I have not much to say except that after 2000 until 2016, I did not feel that I had the freedom to vote for any Republican Presidential candidate (and most certainly not Democrat ever).
In 2004, I supported the nominees of the Constitutional Party, Mike Peroutka/Chuck Baldwin. To me, the later nominees McCain and Romney were non-entities. 'Nuff said about that era, to which you are probably referring.
In 2016 I voted for Trump, but not without a great deal of reservations regarding his personal style and inability to carry through personal commitments.
I like Trump BECAUSE he fights back.
So did Reagan, who was a heavyweight fighter with a legitimate knockout punch, but still a gentleman worthy of imitating.
Trump is a narcissistic unpredictable brawler, who does win, but often by hitting below the belt and smacking women around. But at this point, he is all the conservatives, independents, and reformed Donkeymen have. I don't like several of his policies (stance on abortion, tolerance of the BGLADs), but I really hated Hills and her obsequious drunken sucklings, moral reprobates.
Lacking realistically capable ambitious alternatives, I will vote for him again. But after . . . ??