We're plagued by an epidemic of Sore-Loserman disease, where too many people simply can't go "Well, looks like we lost that one. We'll have to do better next time."
Played that game for almost 3 decades with little to show for the effort. And after all the promises made by the Republicans in the last 8 years, they have deliberately reneged on every single thing they ran on to win power - and it has nothing to do with building coalitions. They had no intention whatsoever to do what they said they were going to do.
Roots. Branches. And all.
Your party is corrupted beyond redemption and it is just another flavor of all-intrusive Statism.
If people want to insist on purity, they have to recognize that means the chances of forming a winning coalition vanish, and you end up conceding the entire process to those who are much worse.
Oh well. The coalition of Republicans working with Democrats has gotten us to this point - might as well vote Democrat if government Statism is what the goal is.
Besides, we were told to our faces, to shut up, sit down, vote for whom they tell us to vote for or get the hell out of their party. The Establishment rewrote the convention rules to make sure the grassroots can NEVER field a national candidate not groomed by their leadership.
So much for your leadership 'building coalitions' because based on the evidence, the ONLY coalitions the Republican is interested in building - are with Liberal Democrat/Statists/Marxists if it gets their pet lobbyists and causes funded. Big intrusive, debt-ravenous Government but just different beneficiaries than the Democrats.
I wasted nearly thirty years in the trenches for traitors to the cause.
Never again.
You can call it 'purist' as the day is long and I will smile and say 'You betcha".
