The GOP lost it’s balls when Lee Atwater died.
Democrats from that era still shiver at the thought of Lee Atwater. When asked they compare him to Satan and babble about how vicious he was.
In other words, he acted just like the Democrat operatives, attack and then attack again. GOP problem is that MSM prints the Democrats positions first and only question later if at all. GOP is questioned if not quashed before printing. Fact of life!