Republicans Want Impunity, Not Unity Having whipped its base into a violent frenzy, the GOP now wants you to believe it wants to heal the nation. Alex Wong/Getty Images For the past two months, the bulk of the Republican Party and the conservative movement has pushed unhinged conspiracy theories about election fraud. Most of them stood back and stood by while President Donald Trump constantly lied about the outcome, or while he pressured state officials into overturning their election results. While Trump raged and ranted to his supporters about imagined crimes, their supposedly corrupt perpetrators, and the phantasmal harms they would somehow inflict if not stopped, they either actively supported the president or humored him.