The Republican Party is stuck on this idea that tax cuts are a cheat code to winning elections, and all other issues are just too controversial and distracting from this one thing. They largely believe that if they can tamp down on all this unrest about other issues and bring the party back to focusing on cutting taxes and increasing military spending, they'll start bringing home victories again. That's why they refuse to engage other issues. Even in municipal races where the public is upset about skyrocketing crime and bums pissing everywhere, they just campaign on tax cuts. It's why they initially had Noem, Hutchison, and Abbot cuck on trans kids. It's why they had no message on COVID. They view everything that isn't a tax cut as a distraction.
Democrats haven't raised taxes significantly in 30 years, and yet, you still see retarded boomer conservatives saying, "Heh! Wait until those kids start paying taxes! Then they'll vote Republican." Bro, the Democrats are fighting to make it legal for a pedophile to kidnap my son and castrate him, I don't fucking care if you're going to lower the taxes on his state-mandated tranny titty pills.