Nothing will be "realistic" to you at this point unless it's 110% unwavering support for Trump...which in reality is quite unrealistic.
That's a pretty unfair crack coming from you.... since I'm not exactly a bona-fide, card-carrying Trump supporter. More like a reluctant co-opted supporter. So...color me surprised @you.
But anyway...
People like McConnell...Cornyn and that tight little group of "moderates" that Mitch surrounds himself with...need to be sent home and replaced with Republicans that believe in Conservatism. The RINO's in the House that supported the budgets that Trump said he'd never sign again but did... same for them. We have the power to send a message...to put different people in office that look out for us...it's not like it hasn't been done before.
Just as I suspected. More pie in the sky (bullshit) rhetoric about what is most likely NOT going to happen next year. Yes, of course, the establishment RINOs are a major obstacle. But the RL is an even bigger one in my logic book.
So...what "different people" would you put in office next year, specifically? Got any names of who to vote for to replace the RINOs? And no, we haven't exactly had a flaming success in that endeavor, thus far. Bottom line is.... we have the choice to either support the GOP against the radical left next year... or say the hell with it, who cares, it's a lost cause, or "we tried to vote out the RINOs again, but failed". Sorry, but I'm just not feeling it.
But it requires more than hope...and/or a miracle or just throwing up our hands and saying "there's nothing I can do". It requires people actually getting off their ass and doing what it takes to wrest (via elections) power back from the left that even when they're not in power...still think they run the show.
1994 comes to mind. That election blunted Clinton's attempts to drag us left. Forced a lot of reforms and as @Victoria33 pointed out...gave us the last balanced budgets we've seen in our lifetime.
Sadly the same kind of infusion of new blood into the House and Senate on the GOP side may be what's needed to force Trump to stop lurching left especially in a second term. We already know he can't or won't do it on his own.
It's a little late for that infusion at this point, don't you think? We're now up against the communists, out of the closet and loud and proud. And they are going for our collective jugulars.
If Trump turns out to go squishy (or Bushy) in his second term... and lets us down... at least our descent will have been slowed compared to how fast the commiecrats would have driven us down. Reality sucks AND bites.