It has been noted in many fora that the GOP has no popular governing agenda beyond tax cuts. OK, that's been true for a while now.
What's so fascinating is that the GOP seems to want to embrace actively bad governing measures. They routinely shoot themselves and their constituents in the face, Cheney style, in order to prove their fealty to the insipid cruelty of the GOP agenda. Dobbs and the electoral fallout from it should have been a warning, but I suppose they look at how they often refused to expand Medicaid under the ACA and really didn't pay an electoral price for it. Even if the Medicaid expansion would subsequently pass in statewide referenda, at no point did voters notice that the GOP is making their lives measurably worse.
The states in the Progressive Era were labeled the "laboratories of democracy," but the GOP have made them exemplars of the sort of piss-poor governance that is the GOP brand these days. In a sane world, they shouldn't get 30% of the vote.
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