If anyone is misrepresenting their platform, it is the Republicans. The party as you describe it no longer exists. They have evolved into something barely recognizable form tyrants, and they are happy with that. A political party is defined by its members, and as such, the Republican party no longer, if it ever did, represents the idealogical definition you are giving.
If things continue as they have, instead of calling Republicans tyrants, we will be calling tyrants Republicans.
If things continue as they have, instead of calling Republicans tyrants, we will be calling tyrants Republicans.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell