AuntB....it’s figured out. I think a few months into the previous administration, all the backstabbers that were supposed to be Conservative heroes-Mattis, Sessions, Kelly-Mulvaney-were outed as Globalist shills. Stuff the President has caught much hell about on this site about his “picks”.
Who didn’t think Sessions or Mattis were everything the propped them up to be, only to be 100000% disasters.
The problem is voters still going with name recognition, laziness, and surrendering to the: they all suck ... ??? sucks less than the Democrat ... at least ??? won’t try and take my guns away, like the Democrat will ... my vote don’t matter anyway(proven in the 2020 election) ... they’re all corrupt, but I’ll vote for the Republican incumbent anyway.
Graham, Thune and Cornyn are, about, the 3 most perfect examples of this. And they still get elected.
You are so right about voting and laziness and name recognition.
I worked as an election judge for decades. People would vote for Hitler just because they recognize the name! When GW ran lots of people thought they were voting for old man Bush.