Spot on, but the only conservatives who can take on a city would be disparaged as RINOs here. Chicago is ripe for a take over.
We need to better appreciate the tenth amendment and the principle of subsidiarity. I would never support a RINO on the federal side of the equation, but states and local governments are on the other side of the tenth amendment. If citizens want a larger government with more services at the city level, there is no reason a republican can't respond to that. What republicans should run on at the local level is good, effective government that is less corrupt. Whether at the federal or local level, we still need to be the more socially conservative though.
I am looking at cities like Detroit. If we can win back the rust belt and turn it around, we can win the cities all across the country and knock the democrats out of their power bases. Conditions are aligning to be better for us right now than in generations, as democrats have run cities into bankruptcy all over the country.