Why would any rational human (including Republican) do this @Hoodat ? The "conservatism" represented by the majority of voices here is, for a myriad of reasons, simply unelectable.
A big part of this is the fact that the Left has the edge in the media, they have academia, and they also have pop culture via domination of Hollywood. Not to mention most of the "civil servants" in government at all levels are left-of-center. The civil servants can always wait out the elected politicians. The media and pop culture will shape how many see things.
Last night's SVU was watched by millions - and more will watch via Hulu/On Demand, etc. It painted Christian conservatives as homophobes who approve of "raping the gay away." Next week's season finale is a two-hour anti-Trump fest over illegal immigration.
This is the reality. A lot of what we will do will have to be marginal gains until we can get a beachhead in the media, academia, and pop culture. That is a generational task - and the Left is already moving in a more totalitarian direction. Remember Ann Revel wanting to regulate conservative media? Did you see that article in the New England Journal of Medicine that all but calls for doctors to swear fealty to Planned Parenthood?
The Left has been playing for keeps since Citizens United. The Right hasn't caught up to this paradigm shift yet. The only people who have are Trump, Bannon, and a few others - and half the Right seems to be willing to ditch them.