And no, most of the GOP candidates are not "de facto" Dems. Most of them are not conservatives, but you can track votes and still see substantial differences by party. But I won't bother because I know where this is going.
Have fun losing with whomever your anointed candidate is, either in the primaries or in the general. The demographic changes in this country leave Republicans only a narrow window to win an election, and we'd need to have a unified party to have even a shot.
And there's about zero chance of that.
So how can those who are GOP but not conservative not be de-facto Democrats? I’ve tracked a lot of their votes, and it’s the big votes that matter (you know, judiciary confirmation votes among the Senators, spending bill votes among the Congressmen et al), not the little ones and the show votes.
Demographic changes are not as profound as you seem to think they are. There would not be so much election fraud if that was a factor.