[warner25]

The article leaves me totally unsatisfied, with even more questions than answers.

I still have no idea how so many people like me [1] can feel increasingly disconnected from the party that has been totally remade in Trump's image, while these guys have gone in the other direction.

[1] A registered Republican since the Bush era. I've vocally opposed the man since he first entered the picture in the spring of 2015, and I seem to be in good company; see Bush, Cheney, McCain, Romney, all of his former cabinet members and even his own former VP. My dad has voted Republican since the Nixon era, but said he couldn't do it anymore either.

[EA-3167]

You're an individual with individual sensibilities, they're representatives of vast interests and so they simply shift with the wind. They "lurched to the right" because that's where the country went, and because they think they can get more benefits that way. If that turns out to be a bust, they'll "lurch to the left" or any other way the wind blows.