Thread by @mhbx

Before there is any talk of pardoning anybody let’s first figuring out what we’re pardoning for.
Do you want to pardon Trump? First understand the immensity of the lawlessness so healing can happen.

The constant avoidance is a Band-Aid over cancer.
We can’t do it again.

https://twitter.com/msnbc/status/1330496779415154690

Was predictable of course. Even someone like me could see this is what was going to happen.
But we cannot afford another Obamaesque “let’s just MoveOn.“ And leave the cancer festering.

It will happen, and it will re-emerge another Trump later on.

We have not figured out that

The opposition is not interested in reconciliation. They are not interested in facts or truth. They are complicit in one of the worst attacks on our country/constitutional government since perhaps the Civil War.

They are interested in getting away with it.
It is a basic

It is a basic principle of healing that you have to understand what it is that is the problem being addressed.
The response is not revenge or an angry retort abuse of power are the same way Trump is doing even now.
Even now McConnell is threatening disruption. Do you think

Anything will weaken his resolve resolve? Do you think he’s just looking for an opportunity to find out how to govern the country in compromise?
It is self deception of the highest order.

We can’t afford another round. If we hope to escape from this near death experience we

Will have to do the hard work of healing. It starts with the profoundly hard work of telling ourselves the truth.
It will be a struggle because, as we see, a sizable percentage of our country men do not want to know the truth about the depth and magnitude of the deep assault

On the country that has been this Trumpian era. We can’t even tell ourselves the truth about the most basic facts. This insane struggle over the voting is a Painful example.
If we cannot even resolve this simple problem true healing is sadly unlikely.

We have to grapple with the information that is being told us on a daily basis and get our heads out of the clouds hoping for something that cannot happen in the current structure.

If we do not engage in something akin to a truth commission we will simply continue the erosion

Our national Will, power, and capability.
For Biden, or now Obama in his resurgence, or anyone to keep telling us are better days are ahead and not tell us what we have to do between now and those days is in its own way deceptive.