The GOP long ago decided that it would "go along to get along." It accepted gerrymandered safeseats and a permanent minotity status in exchange for a good part of the swag.
The GOP elected offer "consumer services" to their constituents instead of representing them and their views. IOW, they offer intercession with the various branches of the bloated bureaucracy, especially for those who can pay for it.
The various agencies of the federal bureaucracy write the bills that are passed in conjunction with lobbyists. The Congress members have absolutely no idea of what they are voting on or passing. E.G., Not a man jack of'em knows what's in Obamacare. (Neither does the President.)
We now have Government by Government.
I hope that somehow the 17th Amendment can be rescinded to place selection of Senators in the hands of state legislators and governors. That might be a start on the long hard road back to constitutional government instead of imperial presidencies with Third World voters that reminds me more of the 18th C Spanish Empire than it does a country of truly free citizens.
Under the New Deal paradigm, it’s the government’s duty to protect Americans from various hazards and take care of their general welfare, and for 81 years that paradigm is all people know. Citing the General Welfare Clause in the Constitution’s Preamble, most people will even tell you that it’s in the Constitution and they’re entitled to it! As a result, anyone standing between an American and his FGC will get knocked down and run over.
Once Clinton beat Gingrich and the Republicans on this issue, he cracked the whip and turned those “militia” Republicans elected in 1994 into good, reliable purveyors of pork – until the people got sick of them in 2006 and ushered them to the door.