@jricole keep in mind that the Republican Party consists of different groups with vastly different, even contradictory perspectives, just united into one party by tenuous overlaps of consensus and overlap in practical convenience.

So it's not really a contradiction. It's just that different people in the same party can have very different ideas about the world, even if this party is the best for them to be aligned with for the moment.

Off the top of my head, one great example of that was this study I saw finding five distinct groups getting together to elect Trump that included one group of American isolationists and another group promoting global trade and international engagement.

They had exactly opposite core values, but the Republican offering served them both better than the alternative.