That is not the reason; those Republicans have similar means of intimidation at their disposal. This is the reason:
(The) reason Republicans don’t stand up is because they are in positions of power and the Democrats will intimidate them: they will dox them, hound them, threaten them and their family, put them through the courts so they are financially ruined …
Franklin Roosevelt’s rapid conversion from Constitutionalism to the doctrine of unlimited government is an oft-told story. But I am here concerned not so much by the abandonment of states’ rights by the national Democratic Party — an event that occurred some years ago when that party was captured by the socialist ideologues in and about the labor movement — as by the unmistakable tendency of the Republican Party to adopt the same course. […] Thus, the cornerstone of the Republic, our chief bulwark against the encroachment (on) individual freedom by Big Government, is fast disappearing under the piling sands of absolutism.The Dems are not all-powerful intimidators. Rather, the RINOs are working with them at all levels of government. It has been going on for decades.
The Republican Party, to be sure, gives lip service to states’ rights. We often talk about “returning to the states their rightful powers”; the Administration has even gone so far as to sponsor a federal-state conference on the problem. But deeds are what count, and I regret to say that in actual practice, the Republican Party, like the Democratic Party, summons the coercive power of the federal government whenever national leaders conclude that the states are not performing satisfactorily. …
— The Conscience of a Conservative (1960), pp. 24-25
“...the RINOs are working with them at all levels of government. It has been going on for decades.”
If there was ever any doubt of this, it has been erased the past four years and especially the past one month.
The state of georgia is a prime example. These bastards are selling us out.