It has NOTHING to do with the GOP. Literally nothing. The Legislature is simply TOO WEAK to do ANYTHING but spend more. That’s the one avenue open for not only American but ALL Western democracies at this point. We are completely trapped in a public-sector spending bubble, the US only a little less so than the rest of the Western world. Why? Because white people can’t compete with Asian slave labor, not after Western technology leveled the productivity playing field. A 70-IQ Chinese village coolie can pull the lever on a Siemens machine just as well as a unionized blue-collar worker in the US can. That means the greater part of white society ended up being carried government debt spending, and that middle class polity is now overwhelmingly powerful so legislatures can now do NOTHING but keep spending.
So we either go back to imperialism, ie, grabbing the wealth out of the land other people occupy, the West collectively decides to shut out the rest of the world, or we just collapse and fall away as a civilization.