They don't share the name, they took the name. It's theirs now. Not yours. Look, I get it, I too wish it hadn't happened, but it did, it's reality now, and I'm not hearing a good reason to deny reality.
Suppose that now is the time for the part of the agenda that will upset the democrats--to keep those people formerly known as republicans from getting too antsy. Later on, we'll see the other half of that agenda.
At that time, when those formerly known as rebpulicans are angry about being misrepresented, are you going to tell them that they're not real republicans because they voted for a narcissist who was flattered into turning the wheel over to people with contradictory goals, and now "republican" means something that they have no control over? That's absurd. A party is a party insofar as it represents the will of its constituents, coups not withstanding.
Not sure I understand. There are three main groups of Republicans now. The first are the traditional neocons like Mitch McConnell. The second are the evangelicals and the third are the libertarian tech bros. They literally share the same party and collaborate, but have different end goals. For example, group two wants to return to the 1950s or enact christian nationalism, while group three wants the nation to be run like a corporation with a board of directors having ultimate power. The latter two groups don't care about the constitution at all.
