The problem is that the Republicans have no leadership in the House to offer in contrast to Pelosi so there is no way to take advantage of this.
No, the problem is that you still believe in "Republicans" as a meaningful term, designating a group which is in fundamental opposition to the group you call "Democrats".
When it counts, which is to say when it comes to perpetuating the rule of a corrupt, effete, and desacralized aristocracy over the People while preventing the selfsame People from exercising their enormous latent power and authority, they are the same.