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mercurydude posted...

But there's nothing in there about what he will do for anyone... nothing about education, infrastructure, the rising cost of living, etc. Just this stuff they like to use as a distraction.

That is precisely because the GOP is no longer interested in governing, nor in Democracy in general.

Within the GOP, both "postliberalism" of Patrick Deen is being pushed as well as "Neoreactionaries" from conservative techbros like Peter Thiel.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/06/08/the-new-right-patrick-deneen-00100279

At the root of Deen's thinking is forcing Catholicism on everyone.

On social questions, it is explicitly reactionary, opposing progressive ideas about race, gender, and sexuality and supporting policies to promote heterosexual family formation. For instance, Deneen opposes gay marriage, denounces critical race theory as an effort to divide the working classes, and generally supports policy to make it more difficult for married couples to get divorced.

Patrick Deen calls for "Regime Change"

Deneen argues that this version of conservatism will eventually come to replace liberalism as Americas governing philosophy through a process that he calls regime change. But as is often the case with Deneen, he is frustratingly coy about what regime change actually entails or how it will unfold. In his latest book, he argues that regime change will require the peaceful but vigorous overthrow of a corrupt and corrupting liberal ruling class, making way for a new, postliberal order in which existing political forms remain the same but are informed by a fundamentally different ethos. This new regime will be superficially the same as the current political order, but it will be led by a new class of conservative elites who share the values of non-elites and govern in their interests.

Switching gears to Neoreactionaries.

https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/geeks-for-monarchy/

It is basically going back to a monarchy, but with techbro's as kings.

Many of us yearn for a return to one golden age or another. But theres a community of bloggers taking the idea to an extreme: they want to turn the dial way back to the days before the French Revolution.

Neoreactionaries believe that while technology and capitalism have advanced humanity over the past couple centuries, democracy has actually done more harm than good. They propose a return to old-fashioned gender roles, social order and monarchy

So that is why the GOP no longer talks about their policies during a campaign.