I saw most of a recent debate on CSPAN. They all came off as conservative (I really liked Bates, who obviously has no chance).
Coats’ RINO tendencies werent evident, and I dont know how many people remember them the way we do. I suspect he is gonna take this one and we’re just gonna have to be happy to have the seat in the GOP column again. One step closer to taking back the majority.
One of the problems is not conservative v liberal but establishment oligarchy v inclusiveness.
Over time organizations tend to become closed little country clubs at the top. People are excluded, not because they are too liberal or too conservative or too Black or too female. They are excluded because they are not already insiders.
To a large extent the conservatives are rejected by the insiders, not because they are conservative, but because they are not insiders.