Conservatives are swimming against an ever- rising tide of permanently built-in, left-wing statism and ideology - in a government they supposedly control.
Just wait until democrats control the next congress, every new leftist movement and agenda and funding will be fully cemented in place - trans-gender rubbish, climate change, etc..
There is only one way I see to end this
That’s why I don’t equate conservatives and Republicans.
Maybe giving it to democrats will be the only way we will stop taking ourselves vastly more seriously than we deserve.
They will then proceed to turn it into a monstrous fail.
Now a more pragmatic kind of conservatism will find a niche... someone, in fact, much like Donald Trump. Maybe Donald is a bit early to be appreciated. Maybe the country should have had eight years of Hillary first.