Does he mention that it starts at the top?

Erick Erickson writes in the New York Times:

I’m a Republican. We Have Let Too Many Weirdos Into Our Party.

Well, hear hear.  

Interestingly, as I don't really know much about Erickson's views, he seems not to be a fan of Vance:

During the 2016 campaign, Ross Douthat warned, “If you dislike the religious right, wait till you meet the post-religious right.” A decade later, we have met it. It has borrowed the grievance politics, the identity obsessions and the contempt for dissent of the woke left, and it has dressed all of that in a rather Christless Christian nationalism. It intends to be the future of the Republican Party.

Consider how some of its leading lights spent the month before the election. For four consecutive Mondays, Peter Thiel, a billionaire, lectured on the Antichrist at a Masonic lodge in Nashville. The sessions drew William Wolfe, Andrew Isker and Joshua Haymes, prominent Christian nationalists. Mr. Wolfe’s Center for Baptist Leadership rallies online mobs against Southern Baptist pastors who resist his project and offer a gentle word about the culture.

Some of the funding behind this movement comes from Charles Haywood, who made his fortune selling a shampoo company. Mr. Haywood has written that his preferred government “will not be democratic,” that women “will not be permitted to choose career over family” and that men “will not be permitted to choose not to have a family” without “significant penalties.” He has written glowingly of the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. His foundation has reportedly given the Claremont Institute nearly $400,000 since 2022, and it has funded American Reformer, a publication devoted to recapturing Christian institutions, and American Moment, a government staffing pipeline founded with JD Vance’s support.....

Here's the main bit:

 This group is invested in the future of Vice President JD Vance as the agent of the change they want. At a National Conservatism conference in Jerusalem, which happened to be held on the anniversary of the Oct. 7 massacre, Mr. Wolfe said that “JD Vance is our guy.” According to Rod Dreher, he also suggested that conservative American Jews should know their place. Mr. Vance, for his part, has cultivated the weirdo right rather than confront it. He appears to be going along for the ride. Even after Tucker Carlson turned on President Trump and kept mainstreaming antisemitic conspiracy theories, Mr. Vance has not put any real distance between himself and the weirdo right.