Democrat-Lite is an absolutely unsupportable position; when they loses out to full-fledged Democrat, the Democrat-Lite RINOs conclude they need to run further left.
One of the big reasons that leftists win is that there is, nowadays, no real ideology to contradict them. When Democrats propose some $X billion dollar giveaway program, the Democrat-Lites suggest that we should instead give away some smaller amount. Nobody argues that the program will in fact do more harm than good, and so the best outcome--even for the recipients--would be giving away $0.
One major problem conservatives have, and have had for years, is that they get portrayed as Luddites who are trying to impede progress. Indeed, for all practical purposes, that's what RINOs are. They don't provide any particular opposition to liberalism; just an annoying impediment.
As I was reading your post, it struck me as to how far off it was from the business at hand. Yes, compromise makes for strange bedfellows, but compromise is all we have, except for you and the absolute set - either play by my rules or I’ll take my ball and stay home. Well, there are other balls around, much bigger than your ball that will be out there playing while you are baying at the moon about how compromised everything is.
You are not a Luddite, you are a dinosaur.