They can’t pass legislation, this is the most effective thing they can be doing right now. Ideally it will rile up GOP voters to ditch their representatives if they feel ignored and abandoned by them. At the least it will put pressure on GOP reps to be more accountable to their constituents.

It seems the point is to show just how well many aspects of our government were actually working for us before a band of malicious idiots began damaging it.

Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam. Community has been on a slow decline in America since 1965. The combination of an increasingly isolated population and a 24-hour propaganda news cycle aimed to pit you against your neighbor has been a wild success.