Sometimes you have to tear down before you can rebuild. The GOP is a worthless shell as it stands now. I endorse gutting it and replacing the worn-out, broken-down, tepid RINOs with principled conservatives. And if that means we lose in the meantime, then lose we must. Call it a tactical retrograde.
Compromising with leftist vermin is what brought us to this pass to begin with. The Left never gives ground, and every inch we yield is one we'll never recover. There are no more inches to yield.
“Call it a tactical retrograde.”
It seems rather like an immature snit.
There is no such thing as a deliberate rereat in politics. Winning is the only thing, because without it nothing in your program will happen, and you leave a clear field to your opponents - the outcomes of which are likely to be irreversible. Read Burke on that again - once an institutional change is enacted, it becomes part of the great social edifice, dependencies and constituencies are attached, and it becomes set as an element of what the people consider the established social structure. Their natural “conservatism” (Bukean, not necessarily yours) will properly resist change. Consider how little of what Roosevelt, Truman or Johnson established has been changed, or can be.
“every inch we yield is one we’ll never recover”
Well yes, see above.