True, but it should be. If the position is intended to recruit candidates, what kind of candidates do you think a RINO like Sessions will recruit?
If he has any brains at all, he will recruit candidates that suit the Congressional District. That may mean a RINO.
Study what Rahm Emmanuel did to get his majority. He could have gone for a 100% ideologically pure liberal team of candidates and continued to lose. Instead, he matched candidates to the voters in the districts. He often forced the local party committees to take a far more conservative candidate than they’d have preferred, but he wanted a candidate who could win, rather than to sit back as a proud loser.
There are not enough pure liberals or pure conservatives in many, many districts to get the person of their persuasion elected. So, you take the person closest to that persuasion who CAN be elected. Maybe not 100%, but you take 80% because it’s better than 0%.
If your 80% guy/gal is elected, it empowers the more purely ideological leaders. By getting a majority in the House or Senate, you OWN the place. Then you work out your differences internally. The Speaker and all committee chairs, who select the agenda, are chosen by the majority. Nancy Pelosi didn’t get to be Speaker with only liberal/progressive/socialist votes in the House ... she got to be Speaker because a certain number of Democrat Members from swing districts are more conservative than the party’s base. Same thing happened with Newt in ‘95.
We have to learn that simple lesson or enjoy minority status for another 40 years.