when you look at a lot of social/political alliances springing up now...they really have no strategic benefits other than anti-liberal animus.

so you have threads of mutual anti-liberal interest being woven through orthodox religious groups, ethno nationalists/nativists, online communities of socially displaced anti-liberal personalities and the authoritarian strongmen that keep liberalism at bay.

you even have bonds being formed by people like hard line israeli statists and the alt right (who hate jews lol).

republicans are no longer a conservative party. just an anti-liberal one.

trump is enacting anti-free-market tariffs, weakening our national security by fracturing our alliances, expanding government/executive power via executive order (which repubs criticized obama for), kissing up to russia, attacking the largest law enforcement organization in the country almost daily, attacking the constitutionally-endowed free press almost daily, spending like crazy and piling up the deficit (no fiscal restraint/responsibility), etc.

but as long as you are bashing liberals then you are welcomed and even championed in todays republican party. that is the only real principle they genuinely believe in.