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Right now, in my eyes, that hate that the republicans want, and need is the Transgender community.  They want to invoke that fear and hatred that someone will turn your boy into a girl, or turn your girl into a boy.  That your child will get brainwashed and pick a new gender.  They want to feed on that hate in this moment.  That is their new enemy.
COVID may have also played a role where it was a massive global event that took attention away [...] Plus America no longer being involved in Iraq or Afghanistan and the news cycle eager to move on from those topics. 

I think you're overthinking things a little, what you've said here basically sums it up. The War on Terror, both as an actual conflict and as a cultural phenomenon, is essentially over. 9/11 itself is gradually fading out of the collective consciousness and into the history books. There are now voting-age adults for whom it's a historical event that happened nearly half a decade before they were born. Throughout the 2000s and 2010s there was ongoing fighting in the Middle East, and in Western countries there were serious terrorist attacks every few years: the Madrid train bombings, the 7/7 bombings, the Boston Marathon bombing, the Paris attacks and the other attacks across Europe in 2015, etc. It was enough to keep terrorism firmly in the public consciousness, and obviously bred ongoing fear and hatred.
But in the past few years, that has no longer been the case. Osama bin Laden is long dead, ISIS was pretty decisively defeated, and the capabilities of jihadist groups in general have been severely degraded by the more recent US strategy of whack-a-mole precision strikes and special forces operations combined with supporting friendly local forces. They're not gone, but the threat of terrorism is genuinely significantly reduced. Then Covid arrived, and "these unprecedented times" made the whole world forget about pretty much anything else. Then the US withdrew from Afghanistan, ending the "forever war" that had begun as a direct response to the events of September 11, 2001. Finally, I think the Russian invasion of Ukraine was the final push consigning the War on Terror to the history books. Western militaries and the Western public are now firmly focused on the potential for conventional war with Russia, and to a lesser extent China. If jihadists somehow manage to pull off another major terror attack that could change again, but I think the likelihood of that is rather low.
To more directly answer your question, prejudice and anti-Islamic sentiment obviously still exists and I don't think the association of Islam with terrorism will ever completely go away – after all, decades later people still make references to Nazism when talking about Germany. But I think you're right that hostility towards Muslims, by Republicans or anyone else, is not going to be a primary focus for the foreseeable future. Things might be different in Europe, though, where immigration from Muslim countries is a much more contentious topic on its own. >

Right now the "trans means you are grooming kids and you're a left wing pedo" boogeyman is running their narrative. >

From what I've seen, they are still a target of hate, but they're not mentioned as often.  I also suspect that the anti-muslim hate peaked well before 2012, I'd expect it to be highest right after 9/11 really.  Checking the FBI hate crimes data might be a better metric.
What it mostly amounts to is there's been fewer major Islamic terror attacks on the US recently; and the US is doing less fighting against Islamic groups worldwide at the moment.  When there's fewer dead americans, it's hard to get as much hate, or at least harder to score electoral points by targeting the 'enemy'.  A new attack, or a new war vs an Islamic foe, would bring back much of the hate.  This shouldn't be surprising; there's a strong recency bias in how people think and in particular how they fear.  There's simply less fear for things which happened quite awhile ago and are'nt occurring as much lately. >

Saudi Arabia is financing the Right's takeover of the government. The Right loves Muslims who are shoveling mountains of money at them.  I think they used the words, 'bought and paid for' to describe their relationship with the previous administration.  The Saudis have become very adept at using their money to corrupt numerous corridors of power all around the world. >

Republicans are hard for hating on trans people right now.  Don't worry, they will swing back around to muslims again soon enough. >

Wait till they find out that there are transgender muslims.  That would be the personification of all that they want to hate in our modern social climate. >

Iran actually has nothing against transgenderism. The government there has gender confirmation surgery. >

Before you go praising the government though, wait until you find out why they're doing that.... >

...because they think that's their true gender. Boohoo non-whites kicked whites out of their land, get over it. >

There was no social media machine pushing hatred of muslims in the same way that hostile foreign governments have been pushing hatred of the left. >

The right needs an enemy to promote its  platform of hate and fear, but public dynamics change, so the enemy has to change. Muslims, immigrants, gays and trans, minorities, and of course, the always handy "Democrats hate America" when nothing else is causing a stir.