re: I've been hearing some really bizarre commentary from Rs since the midterm massacre.

This is merely an aside, but why are you giving Bannon any attention? That dude literally and actually is eyeballs deep in the Epstein stuff.

We talk about wanting all those answers but then continue to follow those who are confirmed to be involved in the worst aspects. I don't get it.

But the whole of your post, I 100% agree. Instead of learning from the shellacking that the Dims took in the 2024 loss, they tripled down on what they were standing behind and they went absolutely scorched earth two years later. With how polarized everyone has become, moving to the middle or basing things in logic is futile. Move to the extremes and play on people's emotions, because that's how they vote.

*This is all, in fact, based on the hypothetical that there is not an Establishment Uniparty and that we are anything other than useful idiots who are given a "choice" to vote between one side or the other side of the same trick coin that have already been thoroughly vetted and bought to play ball.

locking up and fining people for growing or consuming a weed has never been a conservative position.