Some quotes from my interview yesterday with @RepMeijer, the young anti-war vet and Republican who succeeded @justinamash in Congress. reason.com/2021/01/08/ama…
"Some of my colleagues in Congress, they share responsibility for that. Many of them were fundraising off of this Stop the Steal grift. I don't understand how you can look in the mirror and go to sleep at night without that weighing on your conscience, I fundamentally do not.”
“I'm just at a loss for words about how some of them have acted in ways that are just knowingly, provably false. And they *know* they're lying, too."
“One of the saddest things is I had colleagues who...knew in their heart of hearts that they should've voted to certify, but some had legitimate concerns about the safety of their families. They felt that that vote would put their families in danger.”
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As for Trump, "It's very clear that that how the president acted towards this whole scenario, his actions leading up to yesterday and especially his unwillingness to come to grips with the reality, is continuing to perpetuate this fraud, this deception that is rankly unfit."
Interesting stuff in there, too, about what it was like to be inside the Capitol Wednesday, and why serving in Iraq/Afghanistan makes you realize the futility of forever-wars, etc. reason.com/2021/01/08/ama…
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