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Because Nixon and his Southern Strategy showed them that courting angry white racists in the wake of desegregation was a viable strategy to get a rabidly dedicated voting base. Unfortunately for the GOP as the decades passed and it became increasingly more fringe and increasingly less socially acceptable to hold those kinds of opinions in private let alone in public the economic conservatives that used to form a key part of the core of their party have increasingly been driven to the edges or even out of the party entirely. Making things worse for them Reagan came along pushing his trickle down economics policies that even at the time weren't looked at very favorably by economists and have only been even more thoroughly debunked since, but which the GOP and their supporters latched onto as it's a convenient excuse for constantly reducing taxes on the rich and removing corporate regulations.
Now the GOP has painted themselves into a corner where their base consists almost exclusively of angry ignorant racists, and the so-closely-related-that-their-venn-diagram-is-practically-a-circle evangelical Christians, with a smattering of the ultra wealthy that like not having to pay taxes or deal with pesky things like environmental protection laws, labor laws, or consumer protection laws. While each of those groups is powerful in their own way, what they aren't is growing, in fact quite the opposite. Which no matter how dedicated they are is a problem to the survival of the GOP, particular as those groups demand ever greater shows of support and loyalty to their causes that drive more and more people away from the GOP.