Basically, weak, insecure people want Big Daddy Government to protect them from any and every perceived threat. Especially brown people and Godless liberals.
It's especially ironic since the right was screaming about "big government" for eight years under Obama. Then again hypocrisy is almost a requirement to identify with the Republican Party.
Sure, but the overlap now seems to be all about loyalty to Drumpf and it seems like the libertarian faction of the party is less significant than ever.
That's a good way of putting it. I still think it reflects poorly on them when their party is in power though.
Agreed. It seems like they overestimate the President's power to control what the government does and doesn't do and are blinded by partisanship and conspiracy theories ("Kenyan Muslim socialist Obama is going to take our guns", etc.) to the point that they forget their ideology. In 2001, Bush II removed one of Clinton's environmental regulations and all the Republicans were happy about it. In 2003, Bush II reinstated this regulation and nobody objected.
