Some are as you say. But many are veterans of the Romney wars who didn’t like the fact that everything they were told would happen in supporting him did happen. the GOP went hard left, he lost and we all paid the price.
Nor it’s about saving face. There is no honor in those people. there is anger and frustration and a real mad-on because they were wrong. And rather than simply doing the right thing and fighting to advance conservatism, they fight those fighting for conservatism.
I agree. We have all made mistakes. But we learned and did not try sabotaging the movement and the very philosophy by rewriting it to be RINO lite. We admitted out mistake and fought the right fight.
I can’t think of too many reasons why someone would devote a lot of time urging a surrender to liberalism a year before there will be any announced GOP candidates for president.