Again, read my whole post. Perhaps there are other strategies in play.
To chalk it up to unwillingness - you’re saying that some small group pandering to our agenda was unwilling to champion? There wasn’t a single person trying to ignore the spark? You’re right - they could find time, if the handlers said to.
None of us are that smart. Certainly the political strategists who lay this all out daily, as opposed to us spending 20 minutes a day on a web forum, have given it some thought. Perhaps I’m wrong and assume too much. But I think there’s a strategy to everything.
To me, there’s an established basis that the legislature changes hands mid term. It happened with Obama, it’s happening with Trump, and likely happened countless other times. Is the play to have a success now, knowing that will happen anyway, or is the play to empower your 2A voting base to either react or affirm, in 2020??????
“I don’t care what you did for me yesterday. I care about what you’re doing for me today” type of logic.