Conservatives have not learned a "darned" thing from the results piled up by the left - gay lobby and envirowackos - they win little tiny victories and make their ideas seem harmless. Conservatives SCREAM close education or EPA and the "averge" joe who sees 1-2 hours of TV news a week, thinks conservatives are the devil instead of folks working to make a better place to live.
Liberals win a hundred TINY battles every month - in court, on TV shows, in the MSM - and they all look rational to hard working folks that have no time to examine life's lessons. Maybe little victories would be a start to slowing the growth of EPA DOJ etc. etc.
Some conservatives remember the old warning about the frog and the boiling pot.
Others think flailing around and ending up roadkill is a better option.