By your account, virtually all Republican voters except a relatively insignificant percentage of RINOs oppose big government. Republican representatives elected by those voters oppose it also, but they have to vote for it because their constituents (those same Republican voters who overwhlemingly oppose it) demand “more and more social programs”.
No, this would be “your” account.
Listen to all campaign speeches of the last several elections. American voters want to know “what their country can do for them,” not what they can do for themselves.
Americans of all brands are adicted to the idea of free-stuff, not freedom. No matter how many programs the fed screws up, they still look to the fed to provide solutions to every day challenges.
When the RNC adopted the “big tent” theory of growing the party several years back, they brought into their fold RINO’s. Now they wish they hadn’t.
We didn’t get here in a single election and we won’t get out of here in a single election.
We need to move in the right direction at every opportunity, which means, use every opportunity to move in that direction.
Candidates like Paul and Giuliani divide that effort, they don’t unite it.
That’s my story...