Think about it.
Say we got a group of patriot politicians, why run them in the Republican Party?
The Republican Party has no media, no power inside the government with FBI or CIA. Bad reputation. Hollywood hates them. On and on we can go with how the Republicans are useless resistance.
But if we had Patriots inside the Democrat Party, and then flip the Democrat Party to be more conservative. Then we could have something.
The second you said the most remotely conservative thing they'd reeeeeeee you outta there.
That would all depend on strategy.
You could pretend to be a socialist the whole time, but write conservative legislation when in Congress, and then when asked about it pretend it helps the socialist movement.
Or you could just be straight forward and say you want the Democrat Party to be what it use to be without ever really saying you are a conservative.