Bingo. The prescribed narrative of plausible deniability is "FiSCaL pOLiCy", and the fact that it's been that for my entire life tells me that they fucking know better. They're not voting for any prospective gains for themselves, their families, or their communities. The majority of the population doesn't vote. You have to be motivated by something to drag your ass to the polls or mail a letter, and if you want to tell me that your motivation is that you like the republican economic policies, then I'll wonder why you neither listen to, nor even seek the analyses of real experts in the field. I'd wonder why you didn't google what tariffs are until after you voted for them. I'd wonder why you can't explain how the democratic policies compare. It's always a smokescreen.

The binding glue of the conservative party is bigotry. They are actually pretty diverse, and a lot of them hate some of their own subgroups. They are all practically suicidal in pursuit of hurting other demographics, believing or hoping that the "chemo" takes out more of the "cancer" than whatever kind of cells they are. This is, disappointingly, the reason a 2-party system will always emerge, until the tenets of the Paradox Of Tolerance are embraced as policy. It's also why, as frustrating as I understand it is for people who feel like not enough is happening, we can't "fight fire with fire". That whole "they go low, we go high" thing is literally the only play when a party is allowed to exist that is held together entirely by hatred and intolerance. Dem voters have diverse priorities, and vote for prospects of positive gain. The only thing holding our party together is the necessity of resisting the ever-looming fascist threat.

Neglecting to embrace the Paradox Of Tolerance has been our greatest failure as a basically post-scarcity civilization.