As a leftie, this all confuses me. The one thing that I liked about conservative principles was their respect for individual freedoms and support for the constitution and this sort of conduct is far from those ideals.
Now if you are a conservative and don’t want to be labeled a RINO, you need to be in my bedroom and restrict my freedom to question, or even watch your candidates. You can’t be educated or you’re a elite, you have to be a creationist, and pro choice. It’s a hell of a stretch from what I admired in the right years ago. I think we need small government, fiscal conservatives as a counterbalance to the left, but sadly the social conservatives have taken over.