"They have become beholden to the special interests of entertainment industry elites, trial lawyers, environmentalists and an assortment of groups with a grievance."
That's probably correct. What's wrong with a political group have alliances with like-minded people? Republicans certainly do - business elites, corporations with offshore tax havens, the NRA, evangelical Christians, and the oil lobby. That's the way the political world works.
To claim one side is better or worse than the other is the height of hypocrisy.