Nothing new. Republican politicians are wicked people.
Fixed it.
I can understand political disagreements - when people have different ideas of how the world, government, and laws should be. But at some point in the last couple decades, Republican ideology went over the edge and lost it. They forgot that the core of politics is that
we all have to live with each other. And along the way, they've abandoned what has been a cornerstone of Western Civilization since the end of The Hundred Years War. That on issues of personal belief and faith, you just suck it up and get along when you disagree with your neighbors, because the alternative is a whole lot of pointless destruction.
It hasn't been a perfect path. And don't confuse this truth with laws enforcing social norms on things like race or gender. Those often aren't nice either, but they do represent consensus views, and they change when the consensus changes. Not always gently and or prettily. The GOP does not actually do politics anymore. They're just using government as a tool to push their agenda, ideology, and for the personal benefit of those who pull their strings. It's stopped being public government, and it's going to end in ugly violence unless we (everyone who wants public government back) can use what's left of our system of our democracy to take control of our nation back from the evil, foolish, dangerous, idiotic scum who have hijacked it.