A pithy comment from the NY Times

 

I extracted the following comment from this New York Times op-ed by Ezra Klein:

Three Theories That Explain This Strange Moment

"Voters are pretty good at sensing what parties and politicians actually care about. Inflation may be a problem, but Republicans never credibly presented themselves as a solution. Today’s Republican Party is obsessed with critical race theory and whether Dr. Seuss is being canceled. It is not obsessed with economic growth and health care policy."

OK, that's just true.  Republicans don't care so much about making the country better and having government assist in all the ways it could, they are concerned with using government to enforce their socially-minded and socially-biased viewpoints on the country.  And they get upset when they find out society is not in agreement with their viewpoints on a wide range of issues.