The NYT lists them.
The future of the GOP, per The Guardian.
This, I think, has the GOP about right.
The Trumpists are the relatively isolationist and protectionist Buchananite white nationalists whose office holders and ideologues want to get rid of a century of progressivism though the masses who support them cherish Social Security and Medicare and are not especially interested in taking down Big Government.
The Wall Street conservatives and their mass support are anti-progressive to the bone, deadly enemies of Social Security, Medicare, and the entire welfare state, and favor free trade and immigration, as well as American globalism, NATO, and so on.
The Christian Right cuts across these two, as does the division over methods between the radicals who, for example, favored the shutdown and the establishment who opposed it.
Pretty much all of them are global warming deniers.
What The Guardian is calling "the Breitbart wing" seems to be the faction I have been calling the Trumpists, and sometimes the Buchananites.
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