The problem is this: if you are a conservative, both parties are currently opposition parties.
The sad fact is, it didn’t have to be this way.
That said, it’s the establishment telling conservatives that they need to learn their place and are now witching and moaning because of the all too foreseeable result of their scortched-conservative politics.
He would look at how the repubs have been behaving, and think, "Oh no, the left wing of the democrat party has won".
Then, seeing how the dems have been behaving, think, "Oh NO! Nikita was right! The communists have won".