If youu look at the people the GOPe hates, Rubio, Cruz, Trump, et al, you will find that the GOPe blacklist is always identical to the Democrat blacklist which is always identical to the media blacklist. They are all always the same thing.
The GOPe even echo Democrat talking points when trashing Conservative people, which are, of course echoed again by the media at large. They are all the same thing.
If it looks like a duck, and walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck.
The GOPe are Democrats. They've may not know it. They may not believe it. But from any practical measure of what the GOPe says, does, and believes, they are nothing more than a branch of the Democrat party.
They can twist and spin their behavior anyway they want. They can offer a hundred more excuses. It doesn't matter.
Whether they like it or not, whether they admit it or not, whether they even know it or not, they are Democrat clones. And their goal is to crush any opposition to absolute rule, by means of force when necessary, by D.C. over every American citizen, just like the Democrats.