No they didn’t get suckered. The LP served its purpose at the time and is now expendable. Progressives don’t care about hypocrisy and that’s why they’ve won the culture war. Conservatives are concerned with procedure, custom, tradition, legality, constitutionality and playing defense as they get steamrolled to irrelevance. Progressive are concerned with acquiring and welding power and are good at it. They are not hypocrites, they are Machiavellians. Conservatives have never understood this but are starting to get a clue.