Most change is incremental, not revolutionary. You can't tear down a program without considering the impact on those who rely on the program. Trump and the GOP Congress have ambitious plans for tax reform, regulatory reform, addressing the Affordable Care Act, and other matters that ought to be of great interest to conservatives. But the political reality is that on most of these matters we must go it alone, because the Dems will not lift a finger to help. That requires as a practical matter that the GOP coalition remain united. Unfortunately, too many conservatives demand the perfect at the expense of the good, and even a handful of Congressional defections by GOP conservatives will doom our efforts to change and even roll back the leviathan state.
Unless we decide to get serious as a coalition, we'll likely be shown the door by the voters. We have been given an opportunity, but as always seems to be the case our negativity, back-biting and insistence on ideological purity will be our undoing.
