It has nothing to do with fortitude. It’s a practical matter. They aren’t going to play to a sector that ensures their defeat in the general election. They are discovering that this kind of ridicule could perhaps be beneficial, in that it distances them from orthodoxies that the public at large finds distasteful.
Look, we may stumble, perhaps through a few cycles, trying to find out what the New World Order is. But IMO that stumbling won’t be because we think we weren’t conservative enough, or need a “real conservative” candidate, or any of that stuff. The Senate races showed how well that worked.