A simple question. Did they always have some vested interests in working together yet appear as red vs blue or were they separate then slowly coalesse over the years into becoming a unified deep state?
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Congress started getting really dysfunctional after Newt Gingrich's Contract on America.
Before that pork barrel was the way of the world and each congressman lobbied to get funds into his own state. Each state fought each other to get government programs, whether they were red or blue.
Newt and the Contract made changes to committees and destroyed comity between the parties resulting in congressmen representing their party more than their state. There were other factors like 24/7 CNN followed by internet information bubbles, but Newt was the progenetor.
This gave the uniparty more control since more deals are made in the back room and by party machine rather than by individual representatives with riders and earmarks.
Everybody infighting over who directly gets benefits from expansion of government is still uniparty- real opposition would be fighting to prevent the expansion of government and the inherent theft from the taxpayer involved, not squabbling for handouts