It has been said that the Republicans are bad cops and the Democrats are good cops.

I prefer it as the Democrats being bad cops, and the Republicans being gibbering eldritch horrors made of graft and howling for blood cops.

The Democrats threaten, the Republicans rampage while stealing everything that's not nailed down.

"Good cops" in that game would be something like socdems, offering a healthcare burger if you fall in line and cooperate with the prison of capitalist society.