If you want the fire to keep burning bright, help stoke and fuel it with a stream of cash and other efforts. Unlike the Left, who are lazy when it comes to supporting themselves, but very energetic when it comes to amassing support of the voters on their side, we tend to be very vocal but lazy and cheap when it comes to supporting our candidates. Wishing doesn't doom a choice, lack of action to pursue the wish dooms the choice.
I've never had much cash to give but have supported candidates I believe in with what little I have.
I have been on the front lines, so to speak, since 1995, with various positions on my BPOU. That's an area I would encourage every person who wants to help. There are hard, unglamorous tasks associated with that that include telephones and door bells, manning booths at fairs, convening precinct cauci (in caucus states) etc.
It gets more intense as elections near. There are compensations in meeting some pretty nice and interesting people that often are just like you i.e. not the movers and shakers so much as just adding positive push in our little world.
As a volunteer you can pick and choose somewhat about which people are most deserving of your support.
We are always short of help.
I want Cruz to win because talks the way so many of us feel. If we don't get him or someone like him, we don't have a country much longer.