They were prior to Trump becoming President, then he re fashioned it into something unrecognizable. Think me crazy? Well since when did the party of Lincoln accommodate Qanon & conspiracy representatives to be the face of the party? If Reagan, who was Respected by the party were alive today, he would wonder what on earth is he looking at. Former respected Republican Presidents are shaking their heads at a party they once helmed.
Since when does a minority speaker of the house fly down to Florida to meet up & perhaps with that in hand ask a twice impeached President for guidance, probably on which route to take now that he no longer is in office?
What we have is the Trump party & he calls the shots. There is no way the replica party can re emerge after the Jan 6th insurrection. The Kool aid is now co mingled with the blood of conservatives in Congress. Some refused it, like Mitt, but others are tied to the Sauron of politics.

Political demonstrations have been around for ages. There were so many at that gathering that it scared the he!! out of DC.
The politicians found out how fragile their political agendas are.
So scared they erected walls in DC. I am bewildered on what the walls are intended to do. Keep the masses out or keep them in so they can not escape when the mass arrests start.
The locks are on the outside of the gates ya knoooww.

Yes, political demonstrations have been around for ages, BUT not the type that leads to storming the Capitol. If Democrats or independents did that, l would be just as furious. We are a nation of laws, you don't go around make rules as you go along. Plus those erected walls as you call it, are there because of rabid supporters of the President, who refuse to take " No" for an answer. Attempting to disenfranchise millions of voters all because the election did not go your way?

Yet we are the country that wants to travel the world telling others that they " need to have free and fair elections?" and we carry out the chaos at home? Trump and its ilk have syttt on the Constitution of this country and the damage Trump has done may take decades to repair.

The inconvenient truth is that the vote did go "our way" President Trump got more votes than any other President in the history of the nation; yes even more votes than your boy obammy, and we're supposed to believe that senile "Lunch Bucket nobody Basement Joe" was able to surpass that unprecedented level of success? LOL! Got any more jokes, NG?