Republicans are weak and almost as bad as Dems. This is how they legislate.
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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.
The word you're looking for is "reactionary": people who don't want things to stay the same, they want to return to an earlier state. However, most right wing people don't like being labeled reactionaries, due to its negative connotations.
I very deliberately used the term right wing. I don't believe most Republican voters are reactionaries, they certainly don't want a return to an earlier time. Most Republicans voters I talk to want many of the regulations we have in place to be kept, and even expanded upon. And most also realize that a return to a cultural 1950s that never existed in the first place, is neither realistic, nor healthy.
It's easy to classify these people as reactionaries, because the book that describes what they believe has never been written, their movement never given a name.
What they want, in effect, is a union more perfect still, one that learns from the mistakes of the founders, while keeping the core principles that underpinned America at it's zenith.
They're disgusted by the depravity and cultural rot we see celebrated by the left, and no one will give them the time to explain that it's perfectly consistent to both be disgusted by the left's idea of modern society, and also not want a return to old mistakes.