The Democrat Party is unquestionably and purposely the party of the Left, the party of socialism. The trouble is, the Republican party is not really a clear alternative. One would like to think that Republicans would oppose statism in all its forms, but this is hardly the case. They're better than the Dems on all counts, but one cannot avoid observing that even Republicans are drifting steadily leftwards, steadily toward more powerful government. Recently it seems our party is rushing to the Left more than drifting, to tell the truth.
It's very discouraging, and I don't expect us to achieve easy victory over the Dems without firm conservative principles of our own, by which I primarily mean limited government. But I'm not sure how important a place even limited government holds in modern "conservatism."
The American sheeple do not want it. It won't happen. Things will not get better. The sheeple get what they deserve.