The problem if you ask me is there’s no sizable group within the GOP thinking that they need to change their image. Even as the Dems were being landslided in the 80’s. There was groundwork for a new Democratic Party. The Republicans talk amongst themselves about how they need a new Reagan but frankly they need their own Clinton. I can tell you as a young voter that conservatism in its current design isn’t going to attract too many younger voters. Younger voters and increasingly the electorate as a whole doesn’t want to hear about culture war crap.