I wish I could be optimistic about it.
I just don't see a Republican, let alone an actual conservative, ever occupying the Whitehouse again in the foreseeable future. The next several SCOTUS appointments WILL place the courts firmly in the hands of liberal bed wetters and what few gains we have seen in the last few years will be wiped away.
I tend to agree with you on that as well.
Unfortunately.
"We" are, for the most part, individual hobbyists and amateurs.
"They" are, for the most part, dedicated, eight-hour-a-day salaried statists.
"We" tend to relax and go back to shooting tin cans off our back porches after every miniscule victory.
"They" keep on digging up every abstract or circuitous reason to try to remove guns from the population.
"We" cannot even place ads in the public media.
"They" constantly bombard the low-information voters with specious propaganda.
"We" are individualists.
"They" are statists.
Terry, :(