[sickoflibs]

This is the means to conservative victory. One cannot merely “go back” to a better time. Societal decay cannot simply be undone. One must allow — even encourage — the progressive degeneration to play itself out, fighting it at every turn until the leftists, seething with an increasingly open hatred of America, overplay their hand and self-destruct. Finally, thanks to steadfast conservative resistance, “progressivism” will be fully exposed for the empty, anti-human power lust that it truly is.
Power-lust masked as “caring government” — the entitlement society — can still win support, unfortunately. By gradually forcing progressives out from behind the mask, however, conservatives can at last destroy the illusion that is leftism, leading not to a “reversal” or a “return,” but rather to renewal. This is conservatism’s well-kept secret — the secret hidden in its very nature: from a long series of hard-fought failures can come sudden victory.
Conservatives Have a Secret(American Thinker)

Progressives have the irresistible bait: Free stuff now and we will mail you the bill later after you get addicted but for now someone else will pay. (like giving out free 'crack' samples) Republicans are not that much better because that is what people reward, free stuff.

Worse yet the ‘Conservatism’ term used many times above is so overused it is almost meaningless, It is used by those who support RINO statists and in fact used by Democrats on occasion to describe their own positions.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” By gradually forcing progressives out from behind the mask, however, conservatives can at last destroy the illusion that is leftism, leading not to a “reversal” or a “return,” but rather to renewal.”

We don’t have the luxury of time.