Many traditional movement conservatives are disheartened by the Republican Party’s nominees. They see the Trump-Vance ticket as an explicit rejection of their views and thus feel their historic party has abandoned them.
It’s understandable why they might feel this way. That wing of the party has long set the party’s ideological course. Nominees may not have lived up to the activists’ ideals, but they all had to define themselves in relation to those aspirations. That itself gave the movement power far beyond its numerical strength within the GOP.
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