Yea I feel like a lot of it is ego driven cause it sure isn't rational. Certain folks wanna keep arguing over things that will never ever even be on the table as long as the GOP is in power,it's pretty much wasted energy that could be used more productively elsewhere instead of being used to keep the opposition fractured.
Gotta start moving like GOP voters,they have their different wings in the party with differentiating beliefs yet they put those differences aside when it comes down to business and sticking together at the ballots. They show up regardless. That's how they've managed to win more often than not even given such historically unpopular policies.
If that happened on the left,they'd rarely ever lose these elections,gerrymandering be damned