Left-leaning pundits often accuse the right of having no policy ideas–all they wanna do is own the libs. Is that a fair complaint?
As of today, yes; the best evidence of it is the 2020 GOP platform, which was a xerox of the one from 2016. That was the result of two things: the right’s overwhelming interest in the culture wars and a failure of imagination. But things are changing; the right is starting to legislate on culture war issues instead of just harping on them endlessly for electoral gain. At some point in the foreseeable future, censorship and open support for religion are going to be the subjects of reactionary policy–not just business tax cuts and deregulation.
That’s when it’s really going to hit the fan, because the right’s position on the culture wars cannot be made law under the prevailing interpretations of the Constitution.