Yeah, but it's the method. I see it as an opportunity to draw broad alliances based on principles. For example, we should never remove our pro-life principles from the party platform ever. And yet we can reach out to people who do not agree with us by explaining more clearly that overturning Roe does not outlaw abortion, it returns it to the states where it belongs. If they get all creeped out about that, then ask them why should they be upset by democracy?
We don't want to make some people feel like they are not welcome or marginalized. The social conservative principles are based on freedom and respect for tradition. And they are also tolerant. We should always make clear that there is nothing intolerant about our social conservatism. We need to make it clear because the left wishes to tar us with the label of "intolerance".
If they get all creeped out about that, then ask them why should they be upset by democracy?
***They do get all creeped out. And they jump up & down and slander us and insult us and some of them even go off and start things like wideawake.com. Once you’ve had this happen to you for the umpteenth time, you start looking for solutions to this problem. The time has come to flush out their hiding place.