I agree that conservatism is almost dead-almost. When optimism by conservatives doesn’t actually become true, then it’s time to think about life outside of politics as much as humanly possible. I honestly don’t see any kind of serious and successful conservative comeback for, at least, sixty years, if ever. I should know, because I’m still stuck in Massachusetts, where both Republicanism and conservatism have been successfully suppressed for more than fifty years now and counting. Almost all elected Massachusetts Republicans at all levels are “leftist” Republicans anyways. And now, the majority of U.S. voters have made “Massachusetts politics” go national. This is really a profoundly bad thing to have done, and too many conservatives still don’t know the full extent of the political damage that’s really coming everybody’s way for a very long time.
That's just what they want us to do. Politics has been described as "war by other means" and encouraging people to cave now is the worst possible thing to do.
The first War of Independence is full of examples of the personal courage of men who resisted tyranny. Now is not the time to throw our hands in the air and surrender, now is the time to stoke a fire in the belly.
Here's an excerpt from David McCullough's John Adams, recounting the voting by the Continental Congress to declare independence from England's tyranny:
"Though the record of all that happened the following day, Tuesday, July 2, is regrettably sparse, it appears that just as the doors to Congress were about to be closed at the usual hour of nine o'clock, Caesar Rodney, mud-spattered, 'booted and spurred,' made his dramatic entrance. The tall, thin Rodney - the 'oddest-looking man in the world,' Adams once described him - had been made to appear stranger still, and more to be pitied, by a skin cancer on one side of his face that he kept hidden behind a scarf of green silk. But, as Adams had also recognized, Rodney was a man of spirit, of 'fire.' Almost unimaginably, he had ridden eighty miles through the night, changing horses several times, to be there in time to cast his vote."