People are Republicans for all kinds of reasons and none of us agree on everything. It will be the same with a 3rd party. For some reason only the Left is capable of uniting all their factions into a voting block. We sit around and demonize everyone who is labeled un-pure.
You're no help.
What you said.
“For some reason only the Left is capable of uniting all their factions into a voting block.”
They do it with rigorous and unyielding enforcement of certain platform items. The most uniformly enforced norm is the legality of killing babies and the urgent need to subsidize baby killers with taxpayer money. No democrat is permitted to deviate from that norm in a vote that means anything without severe consequences from the party.
GOP’ers are allowed to say they are against Obamacare and for small government and less spending. But if they act on those statements, they are pariahs. So we have a kind of skitzy norm enforced on the R’s. You may say whatever you want, but if you do not vote for larger government and more spending, you are ostracized by leadership.