The only legislation that the right does that is 'rational' involves the removal of regulations on buisiness and the upward transfer of of wealth.
Everything else they do is
A: Performative: designed to reinforce the narrative of their alternate-reality propaganda channels (If what Fox News has been talking about is really going on, these are the actions a responsible government would take in response.)
B. Provoke a hostile reaction from the left, so that they can lie to the people in their propaganda bubble about why the left doesn't want this; proving that they're dangerous enemies.
Or, some combination of A and B.
It's not just present-day Republicans who operate this way. It's every right wing party around the world throughout history. They use lies to get into power and then use their power to make their lies the only truth.
Now all we have to do is decrease the fidelity of the actual world until it matches that of the AI's world model, and just like that you've got general purpose robots able to do everything that needs done.
Well, you could just go back to sending stuff by fax machine forever, but then instead of even using the fax machine to sync patient data just make the patients fill out their own entire medical history from scratch every time they go to a different doctor and take their word for it.
That map is just stupid. The distance the shaded orange/red area goes in from the shore makes it look like they are forecasting the most destructive tsunami in recorded history then you go look at the chart and it's all "< 1ft".
We believe it plenty. Most of us are just done tolerating, or engaging with, people who still feel that way.