The problem with today's Republican Party is not the rejection of Democratic ideals, but the rejection of democratic ideals. In short, the rejection of democracy, and even of the idea of a constitutional democratic republic. With the election of Donald Trump, and the most anti-democratic government in our history, we may well have just had the last free and fair election in our history.
As one who is registered Republican, I've thought about intentionally voting for candidates so extreme that even Republicans would reject them. Unfortunately, every time I plumb the depths of Republican extremism those depths seem to have no bottom. Republicans seem determined to vote away not only everyone else's rights, but their own as well. Somehow they manage to do this in the name of "freedom". It's a feat of ideological contortionism that I just can't understand.