Thread by @whstancil

If the American political world has one fatal flaw, an underlying defect that has brought the whole US state to the brink of ruin, it's that, for various reasons, it's become verboten to ever question someone's underlying motives, no matter how transparently they're playing you

Republicans have realized they can do everything from pretending to find Donald Trump a great statesman, to voting to reverse an election based on fraud allegations they won't even describe, and media, and too often even Democrats, will treat them as if their views are sincere

So American politics has become a competition to see who can tell the most brazen and audacious lies, and the liars face no penalty for the transparent falsehoods they tell. In fact, it's the people who are outraged at the lying who are penalized, as partisan or uncivil

The liars in our government will never give us permission to describe their lies as such. If we don't reclaim the power to unilaterally identify their wicked motives even over their objections, we're stuck playing their game forever.

As I was saying

https://twitter.com/burgessev/status/1345567940469514240