That’s the same stunt we endured in TN not so long ago with a treacherous RINO getting the Dem caucus to elect him House Speaker (as a puppet for the former Dem Speaker). They get their brief shot at power, but in the end, they’re ultimately distrusted by both sides and never move beyond that post.
Perhaps even more damning is what happened in Alaska Senate for a while, where the GOP had a clear majority but the Dems were able to run the government because a bunch of RINOs voted with the Dems to form a "bipartisan coalition" government, and then the RINO-RAT coalition punished the actual Republicans who refused to join the combine, and made those five principled conservatives into the "minority opposition". Alaska is a safe Republican state and Dems end up in power only because of treasonous Republicans who refuse to support their own party.
Of course, the anti-17thers claim state legislators are sooooo wonderful and somehow magically more principled than federal legislators and dedicated to doing what "the founders" envisioned. I guess George Washington and Thomas Jefferson WANTED Republicans to give the socialist minority control of Alaska politics.