What matters to me is the overarching goal of the party. I understand that parties don't really work as individuals and haven't really ever. The party system guarantees that you get a collective agreement of what the goals are of the party and while dissent can be handled privately, it doesn't happen publicly. So the question is, what direction is the party heading. What is concerning to me about the Republican party isn't it's current platform, but that it hasn't stifled many of the MAGA mouths and that those extreme mouthpieces keep becoming larger and larger parts of the party platform.
There's always people who disagree with the overall party platform, sometime they get loud sometimes it stays in house. What I focus on is where the party itself is heading. So currently the Democratic party is clear that it's goal is to defeat Russia and support Ukraine into becoming a valued European ally. Republicans are getting louder and louder and being given strong vocal places within the party who are clearly articulating dissent. That means Republicans by and large are very open to completely removing that support if they get in power. Whether they will or not remains to be seen.
It's also much easier when you're the minority to allow your extreme sides to talk because you're not governing, you're just opposing. And as long as those pieces aren't costing you votes, if they're eroding away support from the governing party then so be it. But if you want to govern once you have a majority, you have to set a clear unified front.
So no, that part doesn't bother me. It's what they're proposing as a party. So Republicans bothered me when they demoted Liz and elevated MTG because it meant that they valued the MAGA, insurrectionist side of the party more than the side that valued our Democratic systems and the office of the Presidency being held to a high standard. It wasn't that they silenced Liz, it was what that silencing represented for the parties official platform. I'm not bothered that the Democrats silenced the progressive caucus here as that caucus often does need to be silenced or it'll kill the Democrats having any chance of ever really moving forward. They need to have a loud internal voice, but externally it's too much for most of America and their goals often need to be pushed back on.
