Fair enough. I agree the party certainly has a problem. The voters are part of it too. It's a mess, it has been a mess.
It amazes me that they somehow had the majority in Congress and the presidency.
I thought you were going at people who were conservative in America, my bad.
No worries.
The Republican Party has been radicalised over the last decade, through a combination of their representatives and the harnessing of a certain, fairly unpleasant section of the population.
I can’t stand Paul Ryan due to how he’s basically rolled over to the party being hijacked, but it is no longer the party of Ryan etc. It’s the party of Trump and the likes of Moore, King etc.
The very fact that you (and I don’t mean personally, but because of the current rhetoric) mentioned MAXINE WATERS in the same breath as Moore and King just highlights how much of a problem the GOP has - there is just NO moral equivalency there.
While I am firmly left leaning (I believe in the likes of healthcare for all free at the point of access, free quality education, higher minimum wages, choice etc) it’s important to have a reasonable, viable (in terms of policy, not votes) opposition party. That’s why I think it’s important that the CURRENT GOP lose in an absolutely HUGE sense in the next couple of elections, so they can hopefully rebuild as the party they should be (and used to be, tbf).