let's bring in carlos carbello. carlos, vowing to wrap up, when a party no longer offers a new party platform or a new public policy idea, the way for politicians to quish themselves is through symbols, gestures, performance art and, above all, loyalty to the former president. how do you see this playing out for republicans come 2022, 2024. >> that's right, alicia, on this faith and freedom conference in florida, it really just highlights how all of these conservative conferences which before used to attract young conservative people who were maybe governors or young local elected officials and they talk about their ideas, their platforms. today they attend these events and they're essentially providing a performance for donald trump and his supporters.