trump didn’t radically change the republican party, he accelerated its project of total racial domination at the behest of capital.
people got a little taste and remembered how gross and violent it is and opposed it. now that his power is cratering, you see the same loyal gop soldiers who worked alongside him for ten years act as tho they were always against him. and the nyt ofc gleefully launders the so called moderate republicans to put the guardrails back on the safe neoliberal duopoly.