This is the asymmetry of the GOP.
A coalition of older, white Americans, corporations, billionaires, and religious zealots who want the government to allow them to break the rules for their gain
: pay less in taxes than their share should be, allow them to discriminate, and plunder. The government doesn’t need to do anything other than get out of the way…… and police those who don’t like it.
When people resist, it only goes to reinforce their positions. Protest? Police more. Try to provide services or govern effectively? That requires one to Raise taxes… which gets you voted out. Try to do anything good when in the majority? Well the GOP just needs to delay, distract, and play defense. The clock is on their side.
Their platform is a self sustaining spiral that leads to more republican, tea party, MAGA results.
You can’t get off the ride outside of a major cataclysmic event. 9/11, 2008, and Covid were major events. Not cataclysmic enough. But enough to speed up trends. However they didn’t cause any major changes to our government or the world order. Only destabilized it. Maybe like ww1 they primed the pump so to speak.
No for these trends to fully stop, you need a Great Depression + WW level destabilization. Only then will this ride change. Lots of pain will ensue. Even more pain than we’ve seen. Sad to say. But if history is our guide, we are a little overdue.