I mean, I appreciate your position; but the number of stochastic terrorism events in the US are rising, and according to the GOA 71% between 2010 and 2021 of them were either abortion based, racially or ethnically based, and anti-authority based. Those are literally the republicans calling cards, and the dog whistles they routinely blow. Sure democrats get radicalized just like the republicans do, but at a potential 1/3rd of the volume. I mean, only 6% were animals rights or environmental based.
If this one was stochastic, it wasn't Republicans beating the drum. But I don't think this one was stochastic.
To follow: trump isn't toeing the party line; because he SETS the party line. He, very truly, controls the RNC. I don't know if putin has kompromat on trump, or is just throwing money at him: but trump was willing to withdraw from NATO... an organization the US created specifically to counter soviet international actions. It's kind of why there was like a 6 month stop on material to ukraine. Traditional positions don't matter, precedent doesn't matter, last weeks position doesn't matter: he'll just lie and claim he never said it anyway. The whole ******* thing is just so ridiculous in conception, it's hard to believe it's being acted on.
There is some plasticity. My Dad will vote for Trump because of the traditional party platform and not because of anything that Trump has adapted in it. Trump managed to crash fervent military support into tea party anti-tax stuff and gotten support for his own vendattas among people who don't want the government spending money. It has distracted Republicans away from a pretty strong international heroism mythos, but I think they'd readily go back to it if he were out of the way.