The Republican party is a conservative party. This is what conservatives do; they want things to stay as they are. To a true conservative, doing nothing while you're in power is the most ideologically consistent way to behave.

Most Republican voters, on the other hand, are no longer conservative. They used to be, but stopped being so during the Obama administration, when this country took a hard turn to the left.

Most of those voters are now right wingers, not content with merely stopping/slowing the march of leftism, but wanting a new direction entirely.

I wonder if most Republican voters will realize any of this, before it's too late (it may already be). The left controls narrative on basically everything in our culture, they are successful at shutting down basically every movement the right starts. Yet they're totally OK with us calling ourselves conservatives. There's an important realization behind that point, but it's one people have to arrive at for themselves.