Lurker’s tagline applies here.
“Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.”
Greg Hood has some excellent thoughts on this—and he cites James Burnham as his inspiration.
His view—power is a zero sum game.
If you don’t take it and hold it, your enemies will.
That means that the old concept of “public interest” is just wrong.
There is no “public”, there are only factions with their own interests.
If you don’t identify your own faction and fanatically support your own interest, you will be crushed by those that do.
That is what we are seeing now.
Once conservatives “get it” that power is all that matters, they will demand that power and demand winning.