@Strandjunker follow up thought:

The Republican Party is made up of grifters, frauds, sex offenders, seditionists, secessionists, human traffickers, Neo-Nazis, full-on Nazis, and whatever Marjorie Taylor Greene is. If you take any one of those elements out of the equation, they lose. They need every radical, extremist, criminal nut job they can scrounge up to hold their thinnest of majorities.