General Discussion

It's because the Republican Party has, for years, been cornering the market on low information voters with authoritarian personalities, who stick to their TRIBE and follow their TRIBAL LEADERS. Just like Saddam Hussein and his Tikrit clan, the people Donald Rumsfeld called 'dead enders.' They have no ideology, no morality, no paradigms for how government should work. They don't CARE how government works, as long as THEIR GUY is in charge of it.

For the last three decades Republicans have CLAIMED to care about free trade, small government, obeying the Constitution. And we all suspected they were hypocrites. But Trump's election has PROVEN it beyond any doubt.

IT LITERALLY DOESN'T MATTER what he does or doesn't do. They literally don't CARE if Russia meddles in an American election, as long as they help THEIR guy win. They literally don't CARE that he breaks the law, as long as he's THEIR tribal leader breaking it. He's the leader of their TRIBE, and they'll support him no matter what. Generally, the Republican 'tribe' is middle class, white, rural voters. In 1980 their tribal leader (Reagan) said "Russia is bad, and free trade is good." And they followed him. Then in 2020 their tribal leader (Trump) said the opposite. "Russia is good, and free trade is bad." And again, they followed their leader.

The fact that the GOP didn't even publish a platform this time around is further proof of this. They just said "we're for whatever our DEAR LEADER is for."

Democrats, on the other hand, are the exact opposite. They have so many policy ideas that they can't agree on anything, and sometimes have trouble supporting any single candidate. I'm hoping that will change a little this time around.