Yeah, that's the marketing. Republicans like all politicians lie. They are basically democrat lite. I grew up on "conservative" talk radio and in my twenties I started to see through the BS. They promise smaller government (well they used to, not so much anymore) and lower taxes. I will say they do support lower taxes in many cases but its mostly smoke.

I do expect overall taxes to be lower under Trump than they would be under Harris FWIW. There are so many hypocritical positions in the Republican party I couldn't take it anymore. On war, economics, morals, and many other topics.

I began to realize the real issue is that politicians just have an incentive structure that lend itself to these issues. Its not just their ideology. I mean no politician really has much of an ideology than maintaining power and enriching themselves.