Would like to thank @Mynock for this one and bringing to my attention some issues on the matter!
But yes, things are changing and in bigger ways most people expect. The fact is that the 80s and a chunk of the 90s will not be kind to the GOP, mainly because of the shift in both the overton window, but in the general status quo and view of the US.
What we today would think of when it comes to American conservatism was born in the 1980s with Reagan's victory. Secondwave neoconservatism dominated the zeigeist and would maintain itself later on through different forms, doubling down more and more on the culture war at the cost of everything else. And Reagan's conservative vision was just a nostalgic rehash of stuff from the 1950s and a bit before. In a sense, things have been stuck for a while.
ITTL though, that vision has collasped under the weight of failed economic policies and broken promises thanks to timing and then crushed by being outshined by a proto neo-progressive movement that delivers what people are needing and wanting. Hence why by the mid 1990s or so, conservatives will be quite different than OTL of the time.
But yes, things are changing and in bigger ways most people expect. The fact is that the 80s and a chunk of the 90s will not be kind to the GOP, mainly because of the shift in both the overton window, but in the general status quo and view of the US.
What we today would think of when it comes to American conservatism was born in the 1980s with Reagan's victory. Secondwave neoconservatism dominated the zeigeist and would maintain itself later on through different forms, doubling down more and more on the culture war at the cost of everything else. And Reagan's conservative vision was just a nostalgic rehash of stuff from the 1950s and a bit before. In a sense, things have been stuck for a while.
ITTL though, that vision has collasped under the weight of failed economic policies and broken promises thanks to timing and then crushed by being outshined by a proto neo-progressive movement that delivers what people are needing and wanting. Hence why by the mid 1990s or so, conservatives will be quite different than OTL of the time.