We’ve won nothing. Elections haven’t been the problem: conservatives have “won” elections for years. The problem is these so-called “election victories” have not resulted in anything that remotely resembles conservatism in the way of public policy or cultural change. Electoral politics is a rigged game and it’s rigged by design. By keeping conservatives tied up in the futile exercise of voting, it destroys our effectiveness as well as our morale and distracts us from taking other measures that would have a better payback for the time and resources expended.
You are of course sadly right. And many of our “Republican” victors “grow in office” in the words of one “Bill” Clinton, “sooner, rather than later.”