No, what I’m saying is the Realpolitgic reality that winning the primary means nothing. We have an all too strong recent history of nominating candidates we loved, who everyone knew would lose the general election, as opposed to nominating a candidate who might be a bit less conservative, but would win the general.
The result of that is there are now at least 3 Dem votes in the Senate that would have been voting our way if we had not nominated a candidate who could not win the general.
We can have anything we want. We cannot have everything we want.
Rule #4 for Conservatives: Work hard to nominate the most Conservative candidate in the Primary, when we know that candidate will win the General.
Electability is BS, when the party itself works against the base’s choice for primary candidate. You know that though. “Electable” “conservatives” have destroyed the Republic just as much as the most ardent liberal Democrats. Trump was not “electable” but the alternative would have been open-borders Jeb. I get the sense you and Jeb would get along swimmingly.