Democrats run against the person, not on ideas, and Conservatives care about morals. The Democrat strategy is, and has been for many years, to attack the candidate to make conservatives doubt his moral standards. And enough Conservatives fall for the tactic and refuse to vote that Democrats are able to win elections.
The Democrats used the same strategy this election, too. They relentless attacked Trump and portrayed him as a monster, and they continue the attack to this day. While most Conservative candidates roll belly-up (and lose) when they are attacked in this manner, Trump fought back (and won).
Until all Conservatives learn to dismiss the ad hominem attacks and force Democrats to campaign on the issues, liberals will continue to win elections. We must all fight back against their strategy.
Those in the GOP who “roll belly-up” in the face of attacks from the left are not conservatives, bottom line. They are “New Republicans” in the vein of people like Arthur Larson, the man who wrote “A Republican Looks At His Party”, which was a virtual copy of Democrat Dean Acheson’s “A Democrat Looks At His Party”, both books promoting the notion of the federal government requiring the power to implement programs ostensibly for meeting a predefined alleged “need” of the people that they claim could not be met by states or by private individuals.