That surprised me during the 2016 election when Hillary sounded like far more of a warmonger than Trump.

I have a suspicion there's a cold-blooded reason for the neocons moving to the Democrats.

The Republican Party has painted themselves into a demographic corner by demonizing Latinos and blacks (the latter to a lesser extent than in the past), as well as appealing more to rural as opposed to urban folks.

Those minorities and city people's numbers are growing, but Republicans can't reach out to them effectively without losing a big part of their current base.

Though at some point, I could see them doing a move like LBJ signing the Civil Rights Act, that switched which party people saw as the ally of African Americans.