But no matter what happens in that trial, the Republican Party faces a separate reckoning. The GOP must reject conspiracy theories or be consumed by them. She’ll keep making fools out of herself, her constituents, and the Republican Party. Read: The conspiracy theories that fueled the Civil War If the GOP is to have a future outside the fever dreams of internet trolls, we have to call out falsehoods and conspiracy theories unequivocally. The mob that rushed the Capitol had been fed a steady diet of lies and conspiracy theories.