Republicans rely on the truth and don't play with words and semantics like Democrats do. Since dems lie so much they have become good at twisting reality. Usually it's through name calling.
If you want all immigration to be legal you are a xenophobe.
If you want people of color to be treated equally to whites and not favored over them, you are a racist.
If you don't think men should be in bathrooms with girls, you are a homophobe.
If you still use the words men and women, instead of calling everybody "they" or "them" you are a transphobe.
They act like little kids. They excel in name calling but can't grasp logic.
I agree with you 100%. they are the party of demonizing and use the same tactics as the Christians did, which are highly successful in indoctrinating people.
First, you have to create fear. That could be loss of life, pain, injury, esteem
Second, you have to have some scapegoat, usually another individual or group that is responsible for that fear. But, COVID was used as the "devil" just like Christians use the fictional devil
Third, you have to demonize anyone who disagrees with your group's opinions. If they don't believe as you do, they are bad people. Trump, DeSantis, and now Musk (now ridiculed because he left the cult)
Fourth, Get some dirt on the scapegoat and make it up if you have none. Such as the Russian Collusion ruse w=hich the trial has now proved was fabricated by Hillary. (which we all knew)
Fifth, Get people "in authority" (used to be high priests and bishops) to proclaim it to be true over and over and over again like Joseph Goebbels. The MSM has replaced the high priests and bishops.
Sixth, Decimate and destroy the nonbelievers (as we saw 2000 years ago) with today digging up old dirt, ridicule, shunning, ostracizing, and outing, with recent times having Biden say to fire first responders who didn't believe.
Seventh, make it painful if people don't believe. Loss of job, influence, power, and being shunned from restaurants and other community events or things like flying
As we see, humans have not changed at all from 2-3,000 years ago. The tactics of propaganda and indoctrination used very successfully by organized religion, while devious and cruel, are still used today. They get kids in school and indoctrinate them into CRT and hatred of America and now the new thing to instill guilt and shame, hatred of white people as being oppressors.