I disagree with your contention that the saintly yet unprincipled liberals had no part in breaking US governance and have no ideological sticking points. However I will wholly agree with your last two sentences, without reservations of any sort.
On the other claw, I consider loyalty to be a virtue… 
and can’t fathom the mind of anyone who wouldn’t agree with that.
Edit: If that sounds like I’m trying to make this conversation completely about me, well, is anyone else going to stick up for conservatives? Because I can only really speak for myself, and I find the current leadership of the US Republican Party to be both appalling and fundamentally not conservative. They are pro-corporation radicals and further left than the Dems, they are practically anarchists at this point.
