Anytime the Democrats propose some regulation, Republicans will pipe up about how the government just needs to leave businesses alone, how it's wrong to interfere; sometimes they'll call it 'socialism' just to hammer in the point of how much they hate it.
So they characterize themselves this way. But that doesn't stop them from abandoning their supposed principles the second it's inconvenient.
Beliefs change. We see it in the senate taking up the cases into twitter and facebook. The party is shifting. Trump was not a traditional pro corporate republican. His doj is trying to punish monopolies. Many in the gop base, including myself, cannot stand congressional Republicans embrace of corporations (although many of us are seeing the democrats embrace big money too -- biden had more bank donations than trump -- and are equally disgusted). And honestly democrats who agree should reach out now to the shifting base. They might gain voters. That's the point I'm making.