I sometimes wonder if the individual lawmakers have bought into their rhetoric, if they're being intentionally divisive with wedge issues, or if they're just indifferent to the latest GOP trend.
Obviously if the GOP can capture a wedge issue where they can butt ignorant minds up against knowledgeable minds, the party as a whole will do that. Tom Cotton is in that camp taking advantage of wedge issues. But some of these others, I'm really curious about. If I had to guess, most of them know and are just indifferent and riding the ignorant vote that the party has provided.