I keep returning to a concept for why the GOP & Republicans are in a position they shouldn’t be in.
The democrats are (somewhat) willing to find out what issues are important to the voters, and make those issues a part of their platform. The Democrats are reacting to the will of the people and then trying to make the will happen through legislation.
The Republicans tell the people what they want to hear, whether it’s true or false. They get elected and pander to the wealthy, instead of trying to help the people who elected them. They still tell the voters what they’re doing is right, then do nothing, or not do what they told the voters. The amount of deception is exceedingly high.
The voters have to be convinced that they’re doing the right thing by voting red. They’re told that if they don’t vote red the world will suffer and their opponents are bad guys and the voters will suffer. Yet all the time the voters are being told they are having it great, whole the country is suffering because of the Republicans not doing what they said they would do. If the voters complain, the Republicans blame the problems on the “radical left-wing democrats” who won’t let the Republicans get things done in Congress.