Republicans, democrats.. Except for a few, I can’t tell the difference these days.
Republicans are the designated opposition for the Socialist Democrats who still believe they need to present the illusion of there being an Opposition. The Republican Party is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democrat Party. Its members believe that their survival, political and even physical, depends on putting on a show of opposition even as they work hard to cement the One Party Democrat State in irrevocable power. The Republican Party Leaders operate on the theory that the Rulers accept them as part of the power structure and will keep them cut in on the goodies or, at worst, the crocodile will eat them last.
That hope is vain. In a Revolution, and this is a Revolution in progress, the Revolutionary Party will maintain the Opposition until it is deemed no longer necessary. Then that opposition will become subjects of the next stage of the Revolution, the show trials and purges and, following those, the wall.