Cleek's Law states: Today’s conservatism is the opposite of what liberals want today, updated daily. This seems like snark, but it's really consistently applicable.
Take a look at this tweeted poll result. Comparing 2013 to 2017, Democrat's support for air strikes in Syria goes from 38 to 37%. In other words, about 37-38% of Democrats are what we might label "liberal interventionists."
Republican support for those strikes was 22% in 2013. After Trump made some rubble bounce, support for air strikes soared to 86%.
If Republican support for policy can basically be determined by whether that policy has a "D" or an "R" next to its name, then there really is NO Republican policy. Not to the Republican voting populace. This might explain why the first 100 days of the Trump administration has been an unmitigated disaster. Sure, the White House is a bundle of dysfunction, but the House is, too.
All the GOP knows how to do is oppose. That leaves them vulnerable to wild variations in policy and no set plan.
Remind me again why Donald Trump is some crazy outlier to GOP politics?
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