It's a dog-eat-dog world ... "
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Dog eat dog. A situation where people will do anything do get ahead, even harm one another. They idiom alludes to a metaphor where the people involved are the dogs. The competitive fight for food will lead to infighting and having to eat each other. Standup comedy is a dog eat dog world.
"The dog that caught the car" means someone who has reached their goal but then doesn't know what to do after. "Proverbial" is used to indicate that the following phrase is a proverb or an idiom. So, the author is saying that the Republicans have taken power, but now they do not know what to do next.
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