No, it's rhetorical to ask you "Why are you framing it as if it ever was?"

If happiness were a competition we should all be lining up for lobotomies and buying/finding as much sand as we can to bury our heads as deep as we can. But it's not. Conservatives haven't cracked any sort of code, and this line of questions was intended to draw you to this realization of your own accord. Instead, this.