In my opinion, our country is lost without a strong elixir being poured into every corner of government. Electing RINOs simply guarantees the slow march to totalitarianism in this country. Yes, RINOs and more conservative dems (like Manchin) will save us once in a while but most of the time, they will not...sort of like John McCain, Mitt Romney, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski.
So, we either vote in freedom loving zealots or we will eventually be the Soviet Union. The last two years proved that to me.
Additionally, the transition to a totalitarian state will happen so slowly, no one will really notice when we cross that threshold to being the Soviet Union because the totalitarianism will have slowly become normalized in our entire society. There will not be a 1917 revolution followed by civil war in the US to mark a quick transition to totalitarianism. Please remember, there are current political prisoners in jail without trial in Washington DC for having walked into the Capitol when the police purposely opened the doors. There are also thousand of antifa who are free after destroying and looting cities around the country.
So, yes, my strategy as you call it, it is work to elect freedom loving zealots only.
I agree with the concept. However, to preserve a majority, a RINO is much better than a democrat.
Fight in the primary, vote GOP in the general.