Apparently, we've been here before

MANIFESTO

They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party [emphasis added], often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual interests.

— From George Washington's "Farewell Address"

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past with scant hope of getting out of the abyss Republicans have placed us in.