“The pubbies are paper tigers. Just another show trial.”
Anyone who goes to the swamp of DC becomes compromised. Most go for money, power, or fame. If they take the money, they are subject to blackmail. If they are all about power, to be in the power structure they have to toe the line and do the bidding of those who control the levers of power. If they want fame (i.e. McCain and Graham) the attention of the mainstream press requires backstabbing of conservatives and acquiescence to the progressive cause.
There may be a few genuinely principled individuals who go to Washington. If they can’t be bought with money or promises of power, the establishment will expose them to sexual temptations. Once they succumb they can be blackmailed. If they don’t fall to temptation, and make trouble, the establishment will make sure their campaign money dries up or their district lines are redrawn to force them out or make sure they lose. Ask Alan West and Michelle Bachmann.
Republicans are slaves doing the bidding of their globalist masters. What you hear is the noise of token opposition that will fade away.
Sadly, I believe what you have written is all true. The whole of your premise smacks of Jimmy Stewart in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” If you don’t play you will be crushed. It is so much like other places that run on money and power. Like most corporate structures.