The 2019 election season has been a win for Democrats. They rode an anti-Trump wave in Virginia, taking control of both legislative chambers for the first time since 1994. But it wasn’t the case in Kentucky and Louisiana. Republicans won all of the two state’s other constitutional offices.

It is, therefore, time for Republicans to have a “come-to-Jesus moment.” What exactly went wrong? What does it mean to be a political conservative or a member of the Republican Party currently? One is a party label, and the other is an ideology. Party labels change. Ideologies, not so much. In this current partisan political era, however, are the current alignments politically sustainable?