I believe you would be wise to prepare yourself to adjust your concern meter. There is no way a candidate can just sit and dwell among his own base, stroking only their pet concerns, and never get out and go after the votes that will make him the nominee, or that will make him the president of the USA. The base can help, or hurt, but the middle nominates and elects.
The conservative base hasn’t put a conservative into the nomination, or into the White House, since Ronald Reagan.
We can’t even get them into the Senate on any regular basis.
[[There is no way a candidate can just sit and dwell among his own base, stroking only their pet concerns, and never get out and go after the votes that will make him the nominee,]]
Are you suggesting the only way to win is to compromise one’s values? Because that’s what it sounds like you just said