Some are, but Trump has shown them the obvious: you can't run a party and campaign on that alone. The GOP was waiting for another Ronald Reagan when they should have realized that not only was such a candidate nowhere to be found, but that it just didn't attract the electorate in like it used to.

Trump upgraded the game. Added LGBT, minority outreach, and union workers. Suddenly he's taking the "blue vote guarantees" away from the DNC. Despite not getting another Reagan, we got something similar: an ex-Democrat.

The problem with a lot of the Christian conservatives in the GOP is they were neither. They were uniparty establishment all the way. The fact is, Trump has done more for Christian conservatives than all the christian conservative establishment politicians in my lifetime. Trump's presidency put a lie to what I had heard so often in GOP circles, that is, "if we only got rid of all these Christians, and focused on economics, we'd win every election" and that was the start of the GOP establishment's betrayal. I don't like the word marriage for same sex unions and would prefer everything of that nature (including heterosexual legal marriages) be called civil unions but we are where we are. That being said, my concern about legalizing it had nothing to do with denying LGBTQIA+ rights. It had entirely to do with the way I thought LGBTQIA+ activists would seek out Christians who disagreed and try to hurt them any way they could and immediately move into schools to push an agenda. Oh and I was right by the way. LGBTQIA+ activists went on a lawsuit spree targeting as many Christians as they could and dissenting from transgender gender queer ideology in any public space including schools, has become an anathema. So don't give any of this "oh Christians are so mean to us" (I am not denying that some christians are total jerks), but the problem is most certainly the other way around and has been for a while now.

It was never the Christian conservatives, that was a boogeyman invented by the left. it was the fundamentalist nutbags; the Jerry Fucking Falwells.

Yeah, it's gotten so much better now. They stopped saying things that hurt feefees and started selling out America instead!

EDIT hello downvoters, have you met the GOP? Romney? McStain? Did you see the shit they pulled with the debates and the moderators they agreed to? Apart from about five people other than Trump the GOP is just as much sellouts as the Dems and you know it.