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The disparate RW groups stick to their disparate guns to the benefit of a party whose morals and principals are 'flexible'.
The GOP has certainly benefited, in this respect, from the utter dominance of Donald Trump over intra-party politics. Prior to Trump, the GOP was similarly riven by different factions - the hardcore evangelical social conservatives, the austerity-minded business conservatives, the military hawks, etc. Those different groups disagreed over lots of things. Those disagreements have been utterly quashed. Everyone has to do what Trump says.
This actually benefits the GOP as a party a great deal, in a lot of respects. For example, the GOP was often hobbled by the national hardliners on abortion when trying to compete in purple districts and states. Donald Trump, however, doesn't give a rat's behind about abortion - so the Right to Life faction in the party has just had to shut up and swallow it. Trump's Administration is out there breaking every barrier to advance every single aspect of their agenda....but not on abortion. They couldn't even muster enough movement on that issue to slow down generic mifepristone, which would have been literally the easiest thing to do.
So Trump has forced a winner on every internal GOP battle. Abortion: evangelicals lose, center-right wins. Immigration and tariffs: business faction loses, nativist faction wins. Foreign policy: interventionist faction loses. Social Security: austerity faction loses, populist faction wins. And so on, down the line.
There's no one to do that in the Democratic party, and won't be until 2028.
