But you’re aiming they WANT to be in control of those branches. When they are, nominally, they act as if they weren’t, they throw winnable elections all the time, and they seem perfectly happy to be in the minority.
I was born in 1946 and grew up in family where politics were important and lots of table talk. Seems to me in the late 50’s I started hearing “Loyal Opposition” when folks were talking about Republicans.