Personally - and I'm probably the only Republican who thinks so - I think it would be interesting for the Republican Party to actually include some welfare state advocates into their big tent.
Back in the 90's, the GOP tried to run on a platform of "compassionate conservatism." Republicans ran on a platform of traditional family values, and, with people disgusted by President Clinton's sex scandals, they won a lot of elections that way.
However, family social values are not entirely compatible with the laissez-faire business attitudes that the Republican Party have had.
If we want parents to spend more time with their children to help raise them, government is needed to enforce regulations on worker hours to help them with that.
If we want to help single parents raise their children - whether it's for teen mothers, divorced mothers, or widowed mothers - we need to make sure those women can afford to.
If we want to end drug violence then we need to legalize the softer drugs and provide drug addicts with treatment rather than incarceration.
If we want to preserve the traditions of sportsmanship in hunting and fishing, then we need to preserve and conserve our pristine wilderness, which means environmental regulations.
If we want to expand that appreciation for nature, we need to promote our public parks, and utilize methods for people to partake in them, such as hosting concerts and plays.
If we want to promote education, then we need to provide funding to public agency that utilizes the internet to produce that media free for all people to download in order to educate themselves.
If we want to promote small businesses, then we should have government agencies, perhaps at the local level but with federal funding, that provide start-up loans to entrepreneurs so they can start their own businesses that private lenders aren't interested in.
If the GOP wants a more ethnically diverse membership, then they need to court educated immigrants as well as hard-working middle-class immigrants rather than keeping entry and citizenship restrictive.
Please note that I'm not saying that the GOP should rewrite it's platform to make ideas such as these their main platform. Rather, I think the GOP should stop trying to maintain an absurd sense of ideological purity and stop accusing others of being a "RINO" and expand those they can work with rather than demand people stay in lock-step with them.