They play their role well as pretend adversaries to the Democrats described adeptly in "This Town" by Mark Leibovich.
It's all a show. Pretend to fight, pretend to be outraged, then later go to lunch and meet for cocktails later that evening with the "enemy."
Lindsey Graham is the most obvious example of your statement.
In 2016 I decided to never be “Charlie Browned” again.
It was that election that I voted for DJT but declined to vote in the congressional/senate election and haven’t since.
Per the article, America is no longer a representative republic but an oligarchy, run by malignant organizations like the WEF, the WHO as well as our own CDC, FDA, FBI, DOJ, DHS and CIA, all propaganda arms of the Marxist, globalist left.
Yes, these once United States are an oligarchy.