Republicans want you looking at every person bearing a rainbow flag or the "wrong" colour on their skin like they're a creeping menace that appeared from nowhere whose mere existence in the same airspace as you is an inherent crime and are waiting to jump at you in the dark instead of the friends and countrymen they have always been and whose rights you've failed to uphold. And to downplay that those coming in from the outside have a wall of paperwork more effective than any concrete barrier, sniper towers, or display of abject cruelty to contend with while paying through the nose for every sheet of it. Over a course of decades.
And they want you busy beating your fellow countrymen into their social model - turning a blind eye to the real abuses children suffer when they don't fit into the plans of parents who assert their right to control ahead of their children's lives and free will - to distract you from your actual problems and the fact they not only have no plans whatsoever to deal with them but no intentions to do so because aside from an aversion to actually working for their position they actively profit from continued chaos and opportunities for special interests to buy extra voices in legislation.
For a direct example: They want you to think if your job doesn't pay enough and your medical debt keeps piling on it's because some scary outsider came and took it out from under you and not because of votes against better employee wages and mandatory medical coverage.
They want you to resent migrant workers for being brought in to do work cheaply so you don't realize companies sponsoring them (and more often than not neglecting what limited responsibility they have to such workers as the worker is liable to punishment more than the sponsor) see you more as an expense cutting into their profit margin than anything else - a margin widened when employee wages are cut - and not out of some demented notion of diversity or political correctness and certainly not because immigrants muscled their way into an office and took your job like it was somehow a physical object on a desk. They are given work you won't do because it pays an unreliable short term wage you could not live on. And then they're tossed to the curb. You're turning a blind eye to the boundless contempt America's corporate culture has for its own people in the labour force and that the workers they bring in only to treat like criminals or the work they outsource to places that openly abuse human rights are all because your rights are relatively more protected and paying you to a livable standard means a 10 million dollar profit might shrink to 8 million.
They want you to think that your tax dollars are being sucked away to some non-contributing nefarious entities living off your sweat and blood so you don't stop and realize that they vote against those taxes being put into anything at all let alone improvements to - or even the simple maintenance of - your quality of life. Something the difficult passing of infrastructure bills should have clued anyone with sense in on. They want you chasing a phantom "drain" on society supposedly living off your hard work so you never stop and realize you live in a society where YOU and everyone else in the rapidly shrinking middle class can't live off your own hard work. Not because of scary imagined invaders, but because you vote for the people that consistently favour cutting you the worker out of as much of your employer's profit margin as possible and make sure your tax dollars benefit nobody. Least of all you.