The good cop seems a lot different from the bad cop, but they're both looking for a conviction.  They get paid by the same people, and work for the people who sign the checks, and primarily support the system that keeps the money coming.

While it may seem that the republicans have gone off the deep end over the last eight years, pandering to the extreme elements of their base; it may also be said that the democrats have themselves gone so far to the right that they left the repubs very little room to do otherwise.

If Trump had the guts to stand behind half the BS he flung to the crowds at his rallies, or if Bernie hadn't been stabbed in the back by the dems, it might have represented the kind of radical departure needed to usher in something new---Instead we'll have a clown-show that'll probably make Dubya look dignified by comparison, with any kind of populism thoroughly discredited in the eyes of the electorate.  If the Republic survives that long.