From Barry Goldwatter’s failed 1964 anti-Civil Rights “conscience of a conservative” presidential candidacy to Richard Nixon’s successful 1968 ‘conservative’ and optically-racist “Southern Strategy” to Ronald Reagan’s ‘conservative’ and blatantly-racist 1980 “Philadelphia, Mississippi” campaign to George W. Bush’s 2000 duplicitous “compassionate conservative” 5-4 SCOTUS win to Donald Trump’s ‘conservative’ “Make America Great” 2016 surprise, the Republican Party has tacked further and further to the right of actual conservatism.
Today, the GOP establishment and national party is an out-and-out Fascist Party, kowtowing to the likes of the grifter-racist-rapist-misogynist-corporatist-narcissist-xenophobe-pathological-lying-twice-impeached-Hitler-admiring-disgraced-former-president Donald J. Trump.