"Republicans cling to the past"

Original title: US media article: "Republicans cling to the past"
Reference News reported on February 6 that the Boston Globe website published an article entitled "American elections are about the future, but Republicans cling to the past" on February 4. The author is James pindel. The full text is excerpted as follows:
In every election, there are different candidates, different emotions and different situations. But all elections in the United States since 1789 have largely been about one thing: the future.
In every election, candidates ask voters whether they want to maintain the status quo or welcome change. As far as open elections are concerned, it is about the prospects of two different candidates for the future. But it is always about America's future.
Every political party understands this. In the past, Republicans absolutely understood this. Even Trump's slogan of "making America great again" in 2016 is rooted in the idea of what he wants the United States to be if he is elected.
But now, all Republicans can talk about is the past. On Friday, the Republican Party made headlines again, all about internal differences of opinion over the riots in Congress on January 6, 2021. Surprisingly, for now, the past is the most important to them.
The meeting of the Republican National Committee in Salt Lake City should be a joyous moment. As a Democrat, Biden's approval rating is at the lowest point in his term of office. The Democrats' domestic agenda was blocked by other Democratic colleagues. Election experts agree that after the mid-term elections later this year, the Democratic Party's weak majority in Congress is likely to reverse, leaving the Republican Party in the majority.
However, this week's topic is not about what Republicans can do with this new power in 2023. Instead, it was debating Biden's victory in the 2020 election and trying to justify what happened after that, when trump supporters violently stormed the Capitol.
Across the country, almost every open Republican primary, from the governor to the house and Senate, is mired in the same question: who won the 2020 election? Although there is no evidence that anyone other than Biden will win, Republican candidates feel that Trump's lies must continue to be rounded in order to be in line with the spirit of the Republican Party.
Republicans are following their leader, trump, whose recent rally is mainly about the election he lost, not the party's future. Clinging to the past is what the Republican Party and its members want to do. But all the discussion about the past may complicate their future in the election.