I characterize the difference between Republicans and Democrats is that the former are useless — and have been as the first home for so-called “progressivism” as well as the party on no-repeal since Eisenhower passed on at least trying to restore governance by Constitutional means — whereas the Democrats are dangerous, as the home of Cultural Marxism (which trends towards national and civilizational suicide by design) and a Menshevik form of creeping socialism that now is as much fascist as communist.
“Useless” isn’t worth a damn.
But it’s somewhat better than “dangerous”.
And the disease that makes for useless and dangerous goes deeper than just the elites as both have hordes of their own brands of useful idiots.
In the case of Republicans you have the ideological heirs of No-Repeal Eisenhower who prefer Arbitrary government and who are also now way too frequently what I call Islamophobiaphobic ... which is why under W they STILL buried their heads in the is asses and chose to listen to the Muslim Brotherhood or CAIR rather than men like Stephen Coughlin (the push back against knowing your enemy as Sun Tzu advised did NOT start under Obama). In fact, the big tent Republicans may be thought of as Insert-Here-phobiaphobic in general ... unwilling to be thought of as bad people by the next bunch and their lapdog media.
In the case of the Democrats they are now starting to be openly opposed to whatever might result in a sustainable anything. Homosexuality and abortion aren’t enough so now they’ve embraced genderism, population replacement and Islamic migration (anything to be less Christian). They don’t commit personal suicide ... they try to make it so everyone else has put their necks on the chop with them. They are Insert-Here-phobiaphobiaphalic ... especially when it comes to Islam who have now moved ahead of even Poofters on the DNC’s seating arrangement.
I understand what you're saying, but I disagree.
The heart of the problem is that the Republican Party, as a party, stands for nothing.* (Sure it talks, and it likes to present itself as the good guy
… but that's just talk & posturing.)
As you mentioned with their aversion to being thought badly of, they have no staying-power, this results in policies that are compromises — even when there's absolutes involved. For example, the 4th Amendment is absolute… but the Republican party is perfectly willing to 'compromise' on its restrictions, it's perfectly willing to have the NSA funded and operating domestic espionage. For the 5th, it's perfectly willing to allow the FBI to kill citizens without repercussion (ref: Ruby Ridge, Wako, LaVoy Finicum)... and so on.
Think about it — being 'useless' means that they will not be held responsible or accountable — this is the way that the Elites avoid responsibility and accountability. It's always someone else's fault. We see this in the way that they allow the Judiciary to run rampant and then claim there's nothing they can do.
* Nothing out of what they claim to represent, at least.