The shock of realizing that the Grand Old Party is against them is more than many conservatives can take.
It wasn’t easy for me to lay aside a lifetime of party loyalty. It still pains me to think about it, and part of me wants to see it change from within.
I don’t think the folks currently making the rules inside the Republican party will allow for it. They’d rather be the “honorable” opposition, doomed to permanent minority status, than have a real conservative or an outsider upset the feed trough.
“They’d rather be the “honorable” opposition, doomed to permanent minority status,”
Getting all the perks of being a Washington insider, country clubs, parties, social events is definitely incentive for them to remain the “honorable” opposition.