Has the GOP Caught the Car?

 This occurred to me just this morning: Have the Republicans inadvertently become the proverbial dog who caught the car?

For the past 50 years, the GOP campaign has relied on primarily two issues to drive their base to the polls: abortion and guns. It has worked because the voters for whom those two issues are important (and they are not necessarily always the same voters) are, for the most part, one-issue voters. For the misnamed pro-life crowd, if a politician was opposed to abortion and supported the overturning of Roe v. Wade, it didn't matter what else he or she supported. Nothing else mattered. For the strident Second Amendment supporters, if the politician would vote against even the most reasonable gun control measures, nothing else was important.

Well now, at least for the abortion issue, the fight is over. Roe v. Wade has been scrapped. There's no longer anything to drive those one-issue voters to the polls, at least in federal level elections. (There may still be states where the issue will remain a controversy in the legislature or in governor's races, but on the congressional and Presidential levels, it's a done-deal.) So, can the GOP still count on those folks as committed Republican voters? Hell, can they can count on them to vote at all? They've won the only fight they cared about, why would they bother?

Does this mean a serious diminution of Republican power at the ballot box? I think it might.