Well, obviously you missed all those ABO posts from 2012, and then again during this last election cycle.
No. Those posts in 2012 and 2014 were more nuanced than simply “vote RINO no matter what.” I already had one big war of words on this before the election and see no reason to repeat it. However, the gist of it was that we should work to get the best politicians we can at each stage of the election process, AND continue fighting after the election even if we must elect the best of the worst in a given election. So, yeah. Some bad RINOs were elected to defeat even worse Democrats, but who said we should cooperate with them now or reelect them again later? No. The battle isn’t just one election. It’s ongoing.
I totally understand the disgust towards the Republican Party in general, but there are good Republicans. Virtually every Democrat is absolutely, diametrically opposed to us, but the Republicans are with us (conservatives) to varying degrees. Those who aren’t doing what we want need to be opposed and hopefully tossed out at the next opportunity. The only way to do that is to stay involved and do the hard work to get good candidates nominated, so we aren’t faced with such crappy choices in the general elections.