When did republicanism change from

Waaaay back, the Republicans were the party of anti-slavery. It's why some of them cling to the idea of Lincoln so much. The Republican base was then in the north and the Democrat base in the South. Obviously, this is a pre-welfare state and both parties were run and voted for by property-owning white men.

Despite the franchise expansion, the ideology of each party didn't change away from classical liberal economics until the 1930s. Then, the FDR democrats adopted left-Keynesianism with the New Deal. This was possible because of the intense poverty during the great depression and the rising power of labour unions.

Later, during the 60s, Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. This was then a divisive thing within the Democrats because white southerners were mostly opposed to it. Shortly after, the Republicans came up with the Goldwater Southern strategy and talked about states' rights. This was a racist dog whistle because everyone knew that giving southern states more power would be used to oppress black people. The demographics shifted in the '60s and '70s so that Democrats became the party of the north and the cities, republicans the south and rural areas. It's been that way since.

Then there was Reaganism which was what Thatcherism was in the UK. Then there was Trumpism and they became even worse!

Actually the transition. It’s pretty specific. During the Reagan era, it was recognized that a large number of Americans of social conservative viewpoint Had been ignored. And so the Republicans at that time started reaching out to them. In addition they themselves and started doing things like school book elections and such. So distracted a more reactionary version of social conservatism. This is very distinctly different from the conservatism. I’ve say the Goldwater era. And because I got them so many Converse that kept feeding that bunch. Not recognizing at the time that there’s a big overlap between evangelical Christianity and complete brain dead fuck wits
The more they pander, the more they got all the social conservatives. After the great debacle of Nixon, eventually something called the Powell memorandum with written it was a blueprint on how they take back power having lost it. American history is weird

There have always been some conservative principles embraced as a center-right party.

What it has turned into under Trump is a party of authoritarianism and totalitarianism.

This excellent piece sums it up.

https://news.yahoo.com/heres-know-republican-party-become-103014424.html

I don't think it ever did. There's very little that is "conservative" about the Republican party, and it's front runner for the President in 2024.

Ignoring the things that have developed over the last few millennia that they want to destroy or abolish, I guess they might want to conserve stuff like gun violence, lawlessness, Putin, white majorities and the like.

I think the sea change took place with Reagan, the rise of the Christian Coalition in government and the ending of the Fairness Doctrine which was led by Republicans. All the fuel was there and the internet was the match.

It started for the most part around the time of Reagan when the [i]Moral Majority[/i] started getting candidates elected. Then they made a deal with the Tea Party bunch around the time McCain was their candidate for President and made stoopid Sarah his running mate, they still lost. The Republican Party of old is long gone, now it is full of special interest idiocy paid for by lobbyists and gun nuts and voting for an outright grifter and moron as their candidate for President.

I get the vibe that y’all against conservatives, that are twisting things to fit your agendas and are just Anti American. It’s the same user’s on this post that have supported Hamas in other posts. Except [ @Elwood ]. I don’t think I have seen this User on any posts denouncing Israel or really being Anti American. We might have different views on other posts.

As far as I'm concerned, Republicanism is still Representative Democracy. I'm a literal republican. But the Republican Party has abandoned actual Republicanism decades ago.

Conservatives realized the easiest way to get unpopular legislature passed is on a more local level, so they jumped in on state's rights.

Oh I'm a committed Republican.
Erin go Bragh!

Oh no...not that Republican.

It was gradual, when the platform became about "preserving U.S. traditions".