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Because any Republicans with any sense abandoned the party YEARS ago.
George Will was the last one out in 2016:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/02/politics/george-will-donald-trump/index.html
What is left are the hard core, fact free, lunatics who, of course, are going to nominate a hard core, fact free lunatic to lead them.
That tells you a lot about almost half the population.
Really, it's only about 1/3rd of the population, it's just that it's near 100% of Republicans and 1/2 of voters.
The key is getting non-voters off their asses and to the polls, that's what terrifies Republicans more than anything else, it's why they fight motor voter laws, and vote by mail, and why they want to block people from voting at every turn by limiting voting locations, or voting hours, or making it illegal to bring food or water to people standing in line.
30% of the population will believe damn near anything.
In a sane world, we'd mention that this is why you must always doubt your own assumptions because only a fool is always confident, but fortunately for us the other side is babbling about Zombie JFK Jr and Jewish Space Lasers so it's pretty easy to figure out who is at least less wrong.
Its indicative of the decline of christianity, as cults get smaller and smaller they tend to weed out the moderates until there is a small core of hard core extremists who amount to essentially terrorists. This process has unfolded in many other countries and is just hitting the US now, it 20 year it will be all over, religiosity will be under 50% in the general population by that time.
They are already choosing fascism over Christianity. https://digbysblog.net/2023/08/14/gradually-and-then-suddenly/
It's hard and disingenuous to equivocate the population to the electorate. Over half of the U.S. population didn't vote at all.