The big problem is, conservatives should have been more strident decades ago. A big middle finger to the Republican Party 40 years ago might have been early enough to allow the short term benefit to the Democrats come and go while there was still something salvageable left. Doing it now isn't so much punishing a hapless GOP, it's the painful resignation that the country is finally lost. And it is.
We might have been able to restore Founding principles, but for decades the nominal opposition party had nothing to say but variations of "come on now, this isn't the hill to die on, there's bigger fish to fry" ad nauseam. Even recently, we were told that about certain issues because the debt ceiling coming up in a few months time, that was the real battle. That is to say, that was the real battle for them to also immediately surrender on.
Bunch of decrepit old fossils, with their atomic white dentures, artificial tans. Scum. All of them. I want to hear their death rattle at the end of a rope, all of them.