When your loyalty is to the party over the values the party says are bedrock, then you can let your party be taken over by those who don’t believe in the values.
And then you will find the party isn’t your party any more, except in name.
Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials together for some time, but beyond a certain pitch, even the best constitution will be ineffectual, and slavery must ensue.
John Witherspoon, The Dominion of Providence Over the Passions of Men, 1776
We’re reaching that point in time. IMHO