Is the Republican party a conservative party, with conservative values, or not?
Has it moved left, or not?
Did they win elections by campaigning on conservative values, or not?
Do some imperil their own re-election by steadfastly ignoring these conservative values, their conservative base, their maintaining the shift left-of-center? I think they do. I think they know this. But, undaunted, many will continue their steadfast march away from why they were even elected. How does one work with a party which seems bent on walking off a cliff? Working with certain individuals within the party may be possible. I don't foresee that with the party itself. (Denial is where they're at right now.)
You ask good questions...because I don't know about the party as a whole...I would be curious to see what "platform" they would write, if the POTUS election was this year...
However, I do know that some "pundits" are saying that with the Hispanic population growing, along with the black vote, and remarkably even the Muslim vote...the dems are set up quite well in the near future, UNLESS the Republican Party "opens up their tent more"...
Those aren't my words, or what I want...just what is being told to the politicians....so, unless you want to be the "odd man out', like Sen. Coburn is, and even Mike Pence right now...you go along, to get along.
THAT needs to change, but I doubt that we can do it in one elections cycle, do you??