 And that is actually what I have really grieved over watching all of my friends morph into people that are unrecognizable to me. Charlie Sykes tried to encourage the group that they are not alone. The party's down the road. We're the people who are not at the party. But then Sykes ticked off a litany of once-prominent Republicans who've been critical of Trump and were also absent from the party's convention, from former House Speaker Paul Ryan to Trump's former Vice President Mike Pence.