Their base believes in them simply due to decades of propaganda and brainwashing coming from AM radio first and then normalized on fox “news”
I’m sure if democrats were lied to about nearly everything and were told republicans were immoral enemies that are the cause of all your problems for decades just like conservatives have done, they’d have more belief in the democrat party.
Anything you purchase that is attached to a service and you don’t have any physical copies, you don’t actually own.