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This is so fundamentally untrue that frankly I find it insulting and wish you'd go back to being a leftist because you'd do more good with your idiocy there.
And here comes the purity spiral and party/tradcon defense bullshit; as if this wasn't the sort of thing that drove me from the Dems in the first place.
But good to see you are another person who doesn't want to hear how the GOP looks from the outside, and just wants to lean on internal propaganda of the GOP.
Reagan and the later 1994 "Republican Revolution" were founded on being proactive, innovative, and on the leading edge of governmental reform. The
Contract With America pushed by the 1994 Republican Party was full of ideas that had not been tried in government before and that saw massive success at reforming serious problems in government when they managed to get through. That many of these reforms were shot down in a narrowly GOP controlled Congress due to RINO defections or due to the Democratic President Bill Clinton isn't something you can hold against the Conservatives.
Sure it is, because as you said conservatives got nearly nothing accomplished, so little none of what you cited actually meant anything in the long run or actually mattered, and still want to give the GOP 'credit for the attempt'.
What is your side likes to say about participation trophies?
Also, no one cares about Reagan's time or his 'Contract with America' anymore, it was a different world and the youth don't care about yesterday's glories or promises, they want to know what you can do for them here and now. Which, with the national level GOP, ain't much, because it's leaders are RINOs and controlled opposition. Need I remind you how Paul Ryan blew the GOP majority in all houses in Trump's first couple years.
Let me make this abundantly clear to you: Conservative reforms have never really had success in getting passed, in large part due to establishment Rinos sabotaging the bills in the Senate. There have been constant efforts at Conservative reform in every Congress that has seen a Republican majority since 1994, with new ideas on how to handle things constantly put forward. These ideas are almost never reported on by the media due to their innate biases (or if they are they are demonized) and then they often are killed or rendered moot due to Rinos in the Senate going against the Conservatives specifically to preserve the establishment. You're new to paying attention to the non-mainstream media and hearing about these things, but the inability of getting any real reforms through the Congress due to Rinos was not a new thing during Trump, that has been the NORM for Conservative Republicans for the last 30 years and is why so many turned against the Establishment and TO TRUMP in the first place.
They turned to Trump because he was a populist former Dem who wasn't listen to either the establishment GOP or the tradcons, so might actually accomplish shit.
Because as you pointed out/admitted, the GOP has a long tradition of being ineffective at actually getting anything done, or breaking through the MSM crap. And do not forget, the GOP you laud stabbed Trump in the back multiple times because they hated how he 'hijacked' 'their' party, to hell with what the base wanted.
So spare me your winging about the Social Conservatives and the Traditional Conservatives not having any ideas. We HAVE ideas, we've been TRYING to implement them for decades but constantly were stymied by the very same people you hate... yet it's US who are the problem?
Get off your high horse and actually go learn some legislative and court history rather than the "bothsame" propaganda you seem to still think has been the norm.
How about you stop pretending that the GOP's own internal bullshit and defections don't show why the GOP is little more than controlled opposition for the Dems and the unelected bureaucrats in the different agencies like the State Dept.
Because I can find plenty of current, in this time evidence to show all of these problems with the GOP, while you insist that I need to respect the GOP's 'participation trophies' from previous failed attempts that amounted to little to nothing.
This is what I mean when I say the GOP only seems to be good at being graceful losers, and the GOP leadership seems fine with that status, given how they also helped Biden steal the 2020 election. Because Dem control is less dangerous to the GOP leadership than the internal rebellion and populist uprising Trump represented.