I haven't given up on the GOP but I am a skeptic. Its why I am an independent. My experience with both sides from long ago, was that the rats were driven as a group. The GOP were driven by the Constitution, which leads many different directions and tends to fragment. Trying to defend the Constitution is a full time job when you have the rat party trying to take it apart and shape it into some socialists dream.
Since the rats have decided to co-opt their previously hated institutions like the FBI, DOJ, CIA and the IRS and use them as weapons against everyone and anyone who gets in their way to globalization/socialization, it has further fragmented the GOP and strengthened the rat party. The GOP is leaderless and is trying to fight fires that were started by the rat party. The rat party has started many fires and because they are focused like a laser on changing our country to socialism, they will do every underhanded and illegal thing they can do to get there including taking away the right to vote for half of this country. The majority of elected rats want to stack the SC, how in anyone's mind is that fair or constitutional? It isn't but it will not stop rats.
If you look at the rat party as individuals, you will see some of the worst characters with zero integrity. Looked at as a group, they are the most despicable group of poli's in the history of this country. They are put in place to do one thing: Do the bidding of the socialist elites. It binds them. There is zero individuality. Look at their voting record over the last 25 years. It is lock step with no variation. You do what the globalist/socialist elites tell you to or you lose all power and eventually your seat. Do you actually believe that 100% of the rat party is happy with bidens open border and his flooding of the country with unvetted illegals? Not a chance, but they don't dare speak up. You know that democrat constituents along our Southern border are unhappy with the open border policy but their representatives don't care. They aren't there to represent constituents; they are there to do what the globalist/socialist elites tell them to do.
That is the difference. The GOP'ers are fragmented and independent thinkers who love this country and its Constitution. The rats are the complete opposite. The first time I got worried was some time in 92 or 93 in the Rotunda. Al gore gave a speech to a bunch of hi-tech billionaires who where there stuffing their faces with lobster and caviar (at tax payer expense I might add). At the end of that speech he said his now famous line: "We consider the Constitution to be a living breathing document". We all kind of looked at each other and the Reps in the crowd booed. Look at it now. They are still focused on stacking the SC. They can't change the Constition itself, so they will put those that will do the rat party bidding on the court for a super majority and ignore the Constitution in their rulings.