Let’s say it again:
“We controlled the White House and both houses of Congress for the first six years of this millennium, and hardly accomplished any of the agenda we had touted for the better part of 40 years. This is hard to admit, but it is true: An awful lot of those failed Republican congressmen were not moderates. They were conservatives who didn’t have the guts to govern according to their principles.”
Action - or lack of it - has consequences.
You forgot the Supreme Court. Seven of the nine current justices were Republican appointees.