They are not ceding ground. They are complicit. They just think they can do it better.
The voters are ceding ground taking the crumbs they can get while the party continues growing big government.
I said a long time ago that Trump is just a different flavor of big government. His big government priorities are just different - in some places - than the opposition's.
And if people don't believe that just look at Obamacare. It was Trump demanding coverage of preexisting conditions which negates the very definition of insurance. It is just another government mandated entitlement. It was also Trump that said he was going to provide insurance to the 25% who couldn't afford it and that government was going to pay for it. Government doesn't pay for anything.
Trump's administration has signed off on as much deficit spending in four years as Obama did in two terms.
And that's "winning"...