Of course they are going to cancel Clarence Thomas and anyone else they want now. If Rs can't make distinctions and speak truths about the protests (gone terribly wrong, to be sure) the Ds will control the narrative. Which they already do, along with everything else.
Official Republican DC is in the process of canceling itself, even as it thinks it is saving itself. This is 1917 now. There is zero reason for ongoing purge to stop. And it won't. The distinctions to make are fairly simple, but one side has all the power, so saying them is hard.
If Rs can't say "no, this was not a coup but a legitimate protest that went tragically and foolishly wrong due to a number of bad actors" - you know, just say what the Ds have said for months - then it will be painted as a full scale coup/insurrection & used to purge the right.
Granted, there isn't much the right can do to stop the purge and the cultural revolution has long since begun. Most average voters on the right now know exactly what is happening, as do many moderates and Ds. But no one can say it. So there will be no big backlash in next 4yrs.
People in the USSR knew what was going down too. But they had no one to protect them. Sound familiar? The narrative about the sad events at the Capitol and what it is now justifying has no limits now, and the right isn't even trying to draw a defensive line.
What will happen next? Increasingly "mainstream" right leaning figures will get in line or be canceled too. There is no moderating principle to what the other side is doing, and about to do, on a larger scale than anyone imagined possible in the U.S.
This was a lot of stupidity combined with a some twisted people and it ended in senseless tragedy. It should be condemned and prosecuted fully. But the Ds right now—after this summer—are going all the way & saying what all know is insane. If Rs don’t draw line, there’ll be none.
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