Your “basic reality” is a fantasy in your own head...or at best in the echo chamber with your faggy friends.
You’re the one in the “echo chamber”, my FRiend, if you can’t see how badly we’re losing the American public on this one. We’ve lost the last four elections, and even in conservative states polls are tied at best. Pretending otherwise only hurts us further.
Facing uncomfortable facts head-on is a conservative value. We’re strong enough to take it, or at least we should be.