This feud is likely as old as the hills. As miguel noted, it goes back to the old ‘Rockefeller Republican’ days if not farther, and got revived with the Tea Party. I remember the ‘Republican Grassroots’ pins at the county fair GOP booth when my parents manned it. The phrase ‘Voodoo Economics’ goes back to the GHWB v Reagan nomination fight, not the Democrats (shades of the first mentions of Willie Horton and Obama’s birth certificate.)

Worth watching in full on C-Span (45 minutes!) even now is the extraordinary —and largely unprecedented in tone and content— acceptance speech then AK Governor Palin gave when she was tapped for the VP role in McCain’s presidential candidacy…

https://www.c-span.org/video/?280790-11/sarah-palin-2008-acceptance-speech

…It’s totally Trumpism avant la lettre!

Notwithstanding that the Repub ticket instantly surged ahead of the Obamazoids in the polls, the old guard GOPers knew exactly what kind of threat Palin represented to the Uniparty, if her star was allowed to rise as it was well on its way to so doing.

So McCain and his cabal brutally threw Palin under the bus, and every aspect of his campaign from that point forward was de-facto defeatist and accommodationist. Of course his polling immediately crashed and burned, but that was secondary to their longterm personal interests.

Palin never was much publicly associated with the Trumpistas, but I’d think that was likely more due to her coping with family pressing problems; rather than ideologically motivated.

It is most remarkable that 80-odd years after Auschwitz, a prominent percentage of American liberals have ENTHUSIASTICALLY EMBRACED the POLITICS OF DEMONIZATION.

(Gosh…who woulda thunk it…?)

Ah, but I keep forgetting—DEMONIZATION…in order to MAKE THE WORLD A FAR, FAR BETTER PLACE!!…

(Now WHERE have we heard THAT before…?)

Which might raise several questions about the “jungle on the Potomac” (and the country) that “Biden” has established/built/imposed….

Instead, we have EMERGENCY spending bills because that emergency of the Great Recession required it. The Tea Party formed to combat it, then faded. But the US Chamber of Commerce is MAGA enemy number one,

It used to be said, pace Reagan, that there is no immortality except a government spending program. Updated, there is no immortality but for emergency federal spending.

How else did Biden reverse Trump’s budget that stopped state income taxes deductibility from federal income taxes? Thus saving the Blue States from bankruptcy — instead of sending them there where they belonged.

Consider how Biden managed to get most of the Communist Green New Deal passed — yes, the creator that the far Left Dems FDR style money for everyone was written by the Sunrise Movement, an explicitly communist enviro front group.

In August, $370 billions for “climate” that does nothing to halt global warming? Yes. But it completely restocks far Left enviro and agitprop groups that will fraud for more spending and undoubtably be the firehose to mount agitation in enough states to keep the People from sending non-Left pols to the US Senate, and prevent the taxpayers money from being cut from being wasted on corrupting the “Process.”

It is THIS perpetual anti-Trump, anti-MAGA grotesque that McConnell and the US Chamber of Commerce keep gamed against honest politics, labor, and the People that lives on and on like a psychotic axe murderer in a horror flick.

You think I’m exaggerating? Then reconsider lawyer turned video blogger Viva Fred’s explication of Time magazine and Molly Ball’s February election steal confession by projection: listen again. The US Chamber of Commerce helped fund the 2020 stolen election.

THEY HATE YOU AND ME and America — except in so far as they can use her.

“They just had to brag about [stealing] it, didn’t they?

“They don’t like Trump, they don’t like you supporting Trump. They’ve made that pretty clear. Despite all the disingenuous calls for ‘unity’ from Joe Biden, they want those who worked for Trump punished if not ostracized, and Trump supporters ‘re-educated.’”

“They don’t even realize that it’s this demand for ideological conformity to the left or face consequences — either social or financial — is what caused Trump to win in the first place.”
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR, AND LISTEN AGAIN to their evil cynicism and gloat.
https://clashdaily.com/2021/02/watch-lawyer-breaks-down-the-infamous-time-article-about-the-secret-well-funded-cabal-that-fortified-the-2020-election/

I agree with you or others that a semi-formal Contract with America from the R party would be helpful going forward – only going negative against Biden et al. is not enough to create the energy for overcoming the Leftish putsch, or TDS.

But the recent program offered by FL Senator Rick Scott (AN 11 POINT PLAN
TO RESCUE AMERICA) has not gotten off the ground, as far as I can see.