In all honesty, they were never real Republicans to begin with. They just pretended to be just like they pretended that the Democrats switched parties and became the Republicans. It never happened! 1 person switched party sides and the media made a big deal of it.
That is how the democrats have always operated. They are the ones in history that had all kinds of voter fraud, they're the ones that suppressed votes. So this is nothing new for them.
How do you secure that any elected official will go along with the Big agenda? You make sure you have people in each of the main parties. I'm just saying...