I remember when Republican and Democratic governors alike locked down their states in blatant violation of the Constitution. I also remember when Trump criticized Georgia governor Brian Kemp for reopening his state "too soon", and pushed his fast-tracked vaccine on the American people.

I'll grant that Republicans are nominally better on certain issues, or at least they pay lip service to those ends. When it comes to passing the budget, military spending, spying on the American people and violating their rights, they may do some political theatre in opposition but at the end of the day they all come together in a grand show of "partisanship" and pass the bill together.