Factionalism. They truly won't stop at anything to be a team player for their party, even if their party is being run by a guy who doesn't value American institutions and tried to overthrow democracy to stay in power. They are a straight up cult, and regular, decent Americans better get ready to fight back in 2024, or shit is about to get real, real bad.
They know to fall in-line because a strong Republican Party helps all of them, from the president, all the way down the line to locally elected candidates.
We see that it's good for the individual politicians in the short term. But frankly I don't know how anyone can look at the long term effects trump has had on the party over the last decade and not see that he's utterly destroyed their party cohesion.
The GOP has never been more divided, more without unified purpose, and it's more or less entirely in the control of one highly unstable demagogue who clearly only cares about his own personal power, not the party at large.
Trump turned the GOP into an absolute joke on the international stage, and has driven more young voters away from the party than any other conservative figure in recent history.
And all that's before you even start to get into the damage being done by the "Trump wannabes" like MTG and Desantis while trying to emulate Trump
The better question in, why can conservatives not see that Trump is the rot at the head of their party, and their only hope for a future is to cut it off before it spreads
IIRC there were rumors he was considering a run for congress after his term as Gov is up. Regardless, that fuck has been the most openly corrupt piece of shit we've ever had as governor in recent memory. The simple fact that this motherfucker was allowed to oversee his own fucking election as Lt Gov and refused to recuse himself from those duties, told me all I needed to know about that chucklefuck. The asshole has made it his sole mission in this state to disenfranchise as many minority and democrat voters as possible. I have to check every fucking election season now to be sure my voter registration hasn't been revoked because of his illegal bullshit. Fuck Brian Kemp, hes a spinless coward with no morals, just like every other GOP piece of shit!