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Trump has gradually had to lower his standards to remain relevant. He didn’t care about these crazy pockets of republicans until he started losing popularity.
Don’t negotiate with terrorists? Supposedly standard procedure. Unless you’re Republican. >

Huh?
Republicans are the terrorist, it's centrist who've spent the last 30 years attacking anyone that wouldn't negotiate with the terrorist.
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It's fear of conflict with the terrorist that make a moderate.  They seek to moderate the extremism instead of fighting it. >

Both the GOP and its voters have helped create this hellscape by continuing to support these people and the platform, despite the risk. There may have once been "Moderates" within the party, but now they're either gone or complicit. And instead of the party having a reckoning, they keep acting like this is going to end up working out for them.
At this point, both logic and empathy are useless. There's no negotiation, there's no teamwork, there's no acceptance or tollerance. This is the monster Trump helped create, and now everyone will have to deal with the consequences.