Those dumbed down Conservatives do not take the imaginary "high ground" approach that they imagine, but one so full of logical contradictions as to be utterly useless to those of us seeking to reach presently misled students who are restless & uneasy with their ongoing indoctrination. (That is the very group the flawed intellectual pretenders imagine they can reach.)
One can sympathize with one persecuted by Obama, without fantasizing that he is an adequate debater.
During the Obama years, many conservatives took the approach of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", so that anyone critical of Obama and liberal Democrats was treated as an ally. Then many of these guys showed their true colors as Never-Trumpers who overtly or covertly preferred Hillary or Biden to Trump, who or at least side with liberals on key cultural issues.