The Rs have to know they have a problem in terms of appeal to enough American voters to retain power they now have in state legislatures and governorships. If they had thought policy was the glue that has so far held their electorate together, they'd have come up with a platform of policy rather than making their 2020 national convention simply a love fest for Donald Trump. But they were out of practice on policy... because their policy had become what they are, which is just overt obstruction of Democratic Party proposals.
The Rs focused on how many more votes Trump got in 2020 than in 2016... failing to acknowledge meanwhile what it had meant that they lost the House in 2018 and past that experienced plenty blue drift in seats they actually managed to retain. And failing to acknowledge that where they'd picked up votes in 2016, they couldn't hold enough of those same electoral votes in 2020. And on top of that, they lost Georgia three times: the presidential vote and the two US Senate races as well.
The GOP response to all that was to double down on their 2020 convention circus of "Trump cult as platform" by either supporting or averting eyes from Trump-incited attempts to overturn the Biden-Harris election. Then then further underwrote Trump via the RNC's winter meeting by re-electing avid Trump supporter Ronna McDaniel (Romney's niece, no less!) as their national party chair and by appointing a Trump supporter as her deputy.
So for the GOP's current national and official leadership except for Liz Cheney, it's still all about Trump... and same for some of the state level GOP committees, and yet Americans clearly do favor stuff like the infrastructure bill, fixing loopholes in gun acquisition, repairing rather than ditching the Affordable Care Act. Go figure.
It's alarming to realize that the GOP see they are coming up short on policy and that their response is not like 2012 where they at first tried outreach to Hispanics and Asians. Then came Trump and the fluke of his appeal at a time when both right and left populists were unhappy with traditional candidates. This time around, having lost the House, Senate and White House, the Rs seem to be saying their policy will be to make it harder for Americans to vote, especially where it might seem like those Americans might continue to drift blue.
"If you can't win the vote, suppress it" doesn't seem like the catchiest sort of bumpersticker really, And they don't know what to do about the threat that Trump might split the party if he can't keep the GOP's formal approval of his possible future candidacy. The irony is that Trump never liked the constraints of the presidency and right now is only milking his fan base for as much money as he can for as long as he can. His party may now be less the party of NO than the party of NO BALLS.
LIz Cheney has more courage than any of the rest of that lot. She should not be discounted, either. The RNC and the benighted state committees like the one in Arizona might discover that there's a silent majority out there in Republican voter-land, but it's not aligned with Donald Trump any more. They're ripe for a saner choice, one that has some sound policy ideas for ordinary Americans. Meanwhile Joe Biden dances the line trying not to alienate too many of his own party's progressives in order to court a potential swing vote from "moderate conservatives" for 2022 and 2024. It will be interesting to see how that works out.