Oh but he most certainly did give up. Perhaps you forgot he used to be a Democrat. how did he switch to the GOP without giving up? When the dems presented him with the reality of the day just as the GOP has presented us with their reality of today, he wisely saw a losing proposition in remaining a Democrat and...wait for it...
Gave up.
Then hammered them through a wall in a new party.
Reagan didn’t give up when the GOPe was against him. Ask Mark Levin.
Reagan LEFT the Dem Party, because they were worse. He did not start a third party. He changed the GOP Party for the better. Let’s do that again. We MUST. We CAN.