They embrace democratic (little d) principles* less and less as time goes by and must resort to illegal and unethical methods more and more to get their ilk in office. If they did not have such a large control of the media, no conservative would currently be electable.

* Obvious example: they don't want to count votes to see who to install in office.

They are gone. What remains is a deeply radical, reactionary party with absolutely no conservatism left. They are basically a revolutionary party, willing to destroy the existing structure to establish something entirely new, something THEY want which doesn't (and never has) existed in this country. "Republican conservative" is an oxymoron.

Isn't that like having Bernie Sanders as a Fox pundit?