In short; I think a lot of conservatives here feel like the Kurds must have- left behind and betrayed in a hostile territory by our supposed allies who *still* talk a good game of all these ideological touchstones but sold us down the river for decades.
IF it doesn’t ‘pencil out’ on a spreadsheet and there isn’t an effective, court-proof, properly financed plan, it’s pie-in-the-sky B.S. where I live. The only way we keep our second amendment rights is to get it to SCOTUS, the only way we have the slightest chance of getting rid of Newsome and the ultra lib supermajority is sane, sensible, nuts-and-bolts candidates who talk about NUMBERS, not God, Guns, and Gays.
You sound like the Pubbies in my now-blue state!
From afar I suspect the social-issue focus scares some moderate/independent voters, but the larger issue is likely rampant voter fraud—as it is elsewhere.