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Haley Byrd Wilt

7 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read

elected Republicans and conservative media already trying to convince each other the attackers were not Trump supporters

what’s annoying is it’s going to work for a lot of folks. and people I know personally are going to be repeating these talking points as soon as today

(and that’s the point. it gives people cover—no matter how evidence-free—to say “what about antifa!” instead of addressing what happened yesterday in any substantive way. it’s exhausting and it sucks that so many people are completely unwilling to grapple with reality)

(Oh, and more and more House Republicans are going to start adopting this stance. There’s no reason to believe anything is going to change for many of them after this.)

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