Steering a country is like steering an ocean liner or a super tanker. Only slight changes in direction are possible. The trend toward conservatism in the Republican party which was dominant during the Reagan years and the Gingrich leadership in Congress, has been reversed. The power of the rinos is pulling us back toward their preferred view of the ‘correct’ direction for our country. They never liked the direction that ‘bible-belters’ took them - the countryclubbers - and now they are feeling power.
If we real conservatives quit being involved, ie, won’t share our party with the rinos in the next few years, the much stronger pull from the leftist/socialist wing of the democrat party will pull the wheel so far over that we (America as we know it) will swamp or capsize (continuing the sailing analogy.)
To paraphrase what I posted a couple of weeks ago, the Good Ship GOP, with Captain John McCain, regards conservatives as the rats, and are determined to politically exterminate us. If they make it into a safe harbor they will finish us off. If the ship sinks, we all drown.
Yes, I agree with your excellent take.