What you are dealing with is a Democrat Party dominated by aging New Leftists. The New Left wants little in the way of a military, are hostile to police, and want military spending almost all diverted to social spending. New Leftists support imposing a different morality than traditional Western philosophy and the Judeo-Christian moral tradition.
The Republican Party is dominated by old fashioned “Guns and Butter” FDR/JFK/LBJ liberals. They want a big military and a high level of domestic policing. They don’t care about moral/social issues at all, but want to leave them to the New Leftists in the Democratic Party, along with the social spending programs. The Guns and Butter crowd will give the New Leftists their butter, and their “New Morality,” but demand the big military, and absolute discretion at using the military. Like the New Left, the Constituion is elastic, stretched here and there to meet their policy needs. They like being “pragmatic” with the New Left about social spending and social issues, but will not compromise about war making. That is the only issue on which they draw a distinct line in the sand and will not compromise in order to draw Democrat voters to the GOP.
There is no party for traditional Conservatives, who are deliberately confused with “Guns and Butter” Liberals.