Hobbs: Major parties provide obstacles to immigration reform February 11, 2021 San Jose students and community members hosted a walkout Tuesday at Hillside Park to support DACA and TPS recipients on the same day the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the issue. File photo. The Republican Party. The right-wing anti-elite populism of the base of the Republican Party, its disdain for civility and compromise during the past 12 years, the accommodation and then subservience of the Republican Party to Donald Trump, and Trump’s inflaming the fear and racism of his base with lies all led to the Jan. 6 conflagration in the Capitol.