Or do you think that is a wrong assessment?
People turned away from Republicanism because they remembered sitting on their grandpappy's laps listening to tales about how they were so militantly in favor of big government that they helped start a war that burned down cities and killed 650,000 people because the central Government they erected determined that states whose entire existence was owed to a violent succession from a foreign government did not have the right to secede from an agreement they spent the majority of blood and treasure backing. Then these same dudes suddenly got cold feet when the daughters of abolitionists took their centralized "We will force you to change your ways even if it means culling your population" to its logical extremes with the eugenics movement.
The architects of the first and second world War were the children and grandchildren of the Civil War. Patton himself was the grandson of a confederate general and Mac was the grandson of a Commander in blue.
No one took Republicans seriously because they saw a bunch of dudes who got the ball rolling on outrageous centralization then got cold feet then started to claim descent and ideological wardenship over minarchistic free market values from men they would have scorned as seditionistd.
What was a Repuglican but the last in a long line of cowards who preserved the values of their opposition from a generation past?
Who the hell was Herbert Hoover to fight for limited government intervention when his party funded sectarian terrorism in places like Kansas and then proceeded to kill over half a million people to protect centralized power?
Then, like now the vast majority of disgruntled Americans who actually care about freedom saw the GOP as a bunch of confused mooks. Why support a sell out and a coward when you're faced with a wheel chair bound strongman? And his successors?
And if you think I'm just projecting, yeah my family owned a newspaper down South before tbe government seized it because we called a dictator a homosexual 🤣🤣🤣 I can tell what was being reported by the foreign press vs what was reported by the successors of bastions of integrity at home lol.
My take comes from that. Seeing America's social ills as an outsider and to me the GOPs problem has always been that it isnt actually conservative and never has been. It's voters are, but the GOP actively hates its voters.
now to be fair Ike broke the mold because he was the only one who wasn't massively full of shit. So did Reagan and he benefited hugely from the religious right who actually went out and did shit even if that shit was fucking retarded half the time.
Like literally we hold the SC.
Ah yes the Supreme Court where a Bush loyalist, career corporation and institution simp with brain damage is the chief justice and Kavanaugh and Barret are uniparty hacks.
What a glorious cultural victory.
Nah the right is winning on the ground specifically because of a new flavor of right wing populism is taking over national discourse and its much more aggressive and assertive than most conservatives are.