Republicans run on the concept that government is the problem, government is dysfunctional, government can’t work, and then they get elected and prove it.

Desperately Seeking Three Democratic Terms
In my lifetime, it is easy to recall the last time a Republican President handed over the Oval Office to a Republican President-Elect: it was Ronald Reagan completing eight years of rule and turning it over to his Vice President George H.W. Bush to rule for another four.