The USSR used ‘fake opposition’ as a political strategy, effectively. If anyone thinks that the left in America wouldn’t or haven’t infiltrated the GOP, they are being very naive. In the USSR, the ‘fake opposition’ would oppose the politburo and the communist party on some issues - to establish their position as ‘the opposition’, but when it came to very big issues, they sided with the communists and politburo.
You can bet with confidence that some Republicans are fake opposition.
You are correct...former Oklahoma congressman Mickey Edwards was such a creature. I dig him up as an example cause I had the misfortune of working alongside of him in the past on a project. He was/is a leftist.
More than some.....
Flake, Corker, Hatch, Heller, Alexander, Graham, McCain, Murkowsky, Hoeven, Rubio, Tillis, Burr, Lankford, Gardner, Cornyn, Cochran, Collins, Sasse, Kennedy, Shelby, Ernst, Blunt, McConnell, Wicker, Portman, Isakson, Johnson, Toomey, Rounds, Thune, Gaines, Barasso and Enzi are all Bush League Republicans.
She's Uniparty through and through.
She wears a blue jersey under her clothes...