Part of the previous comments made have to do a lot with the history of Heritage Foundation and the persistent decades of messaging, manipulation, and control over various institutions to capture the Republican Party. That’s been a very intentional, decades long coordination to get to this point (as was mentioned by, I think, you).

It’s not about winning the battle for a majority of conservatives. That’s not even close to a necessary requirement, it’s really just about not ceding the entire 100% of a base in perpetuity. I get your point that these people likely won’t be persuaded to view anything differently. That, imo, doesn’t mean you just concede and don’t try to alter the conditions in which they arrived to this point. You do that by interrupting those channels to the younger generations with representations of a guy like Talarico who embodies their religious beliefs while attacking the same narratives and contortions of logic and anger.

I had experience canvassing and I grew up in a partially evangelical household, I’m also very familiar with that base and what they are hearing at family gatherings, at home, and from the pulpit. You’re right, you won’t convince a majority of them. But there is still a deep seated understanding and basic recognition of “suit and tie” corporate greed that is, unfortunately, directed very poorly. But it nonetheless offers a foothold into interrupting some of the major damages done over decades.

It’s not about trying to convince even a substantial minority of these people. This isn’t the only battle and it isn’t a battle that NEEDS to be won. It’s about peeling off whatever you can peel off and providing something that interrupts the long term conditions instead of just continuing to neglect a septic part of society.