Unless you live in a very urban area, however, you'll find that a lot of average citizens are pretty moderate and sometimes right of center on many social issues -- particularly on the trans stuff.
In other words, if you're NOT part of 80% of the population, you are right of center on many social issues.
“Right” seems to be an underestimation for a majority of our resident loony birds.
First off, they ain’t conservatives as they don’t give a crap about 8 trillion in deficit spending.
...and the Democrats do?
Fiscal conservatism is something neither party practices, so yes, the GOP isn't fiscally conservative. Plenty of voters would prefer fiscal conservatism, but it doesn't get much traction in Congress.
Granted, the majority of the country does unfortunately tend to support higher government spending in various avenues. These are often the same people that want lower taxes as well, but they don't realize how the 2 contradict each other.