Yes, your perception is accurate. I wrote about the reasons for this here and here, but the briefest explanation is that there's no longer any real place for Republicans on a message board that has intellectual pretensions like this one because Republicans have nothing to say. Nobody is interested in hearing white nationalist propaganda and it feels ridiculous to try to even offer it up and thereby insult the intelligence of everyone you're posting at, and there's no conservative position beyond that nowadays.
This is
partially true. I think it is wrong to say that Republicans don't have "nothing to say" or that they can't articulate any positions beyond white nationalist propaganda. I certainly do think that many in the Republican base subscribe to insane conspiracy theories, racism, and the like, and the quality of the forum would be degraded if we had those types posting here. However, I also do think that we do seriously run the risk of becoming an "echo chamber", and many left-leaning posters on here do seem to express intolerance or discomfort with reading or seeing views that they disagree with. This is to say nothing of the fact that we
do have right-leaning posters on here who are capable of making substantive contributions to the forum.
