Even the small handful of good GOP politicians don’t seem to possess the awareness to publicly articulate the fact that the only reason the GOP became known as the party of flag waving church goers, is because 75% of those flag waving church goers were working class Democrats, who only defected to the GOP in the late 60’s and 70’s, because they were alienated by the flag burning hippies.
Yet right from the get go, the GOP Establishment never liked or identified with these voters. They simply recognized that they needed their votes in a changing political landscape. So for the past 50 plus years, they’ve been lying to us and grifting off of us.
The only reason we didn’t see it decades ago, is because the Uniparty has moved the country in the wrong direction very slowly and incrementally, as older, more traditional Americans died off, and younger Americans were indoctrinated into both Left wing and Globalist ideology.
The only reason we see it now, is because they’ve pushed the country to such extremes, a lot of us had no choice but to wake up, because we’re not complete idiots. The GOP Establishment has their backs to the wall, and their only hope is that there’s still more GOP voters out there who are still asleep than the ones who are now awake.
The first GOP candidate to win it thereafter was George W, Bush in 2000, by less than a 6% margin. No Democrat came even close to winning our county thereafter. By 2016-2020, Trump was winning by 30%.