Thread by @SeanCasten

@GOPLeader's utter lack of a moral or factual north star will be his legacy.

400K dead of COVID. Massive WH criminality. Surging white supremacy. Record-breaking deficits. Frayed international alliances. January 6.

And a man with the gall to call himself a leader says this.

Look: unity is important right now, and some may see this as provocative. But we cannot move forward if we just sweep everything that got here under the rug. We tried that after the Civil War. It didn't work.

A commitment to unity and accountability shouldn't be partisan. But as long as it is, we have to be call out those fanned the flames of insurrection and now call for bipartisan unity to avoid personal accountability.

I screen-shotted the tweet because we all know lots is going to come out about the last 4 years. That tweet isn't going to age well, at at some point he'll delete it. But we've got to ask: why did he feel compelled to say it in the first place?

To spite the incoming President? Well then he ain't for unity.

To keep his base happy? Well then he ain't a leader.

And by the way, even that base is moving on: nytimes.com/2021/01/20/tec…

Because he wants to lead us back to those dark times in our past when racism, misogyny, homophobia and xenophobia were publicly acceptable? (This is, after all, the "again" in MAGA)

@GOPLeader needs to answer this question. Not duck it. Not sing with "false piety". He needs to explain why he asked the Supreme Court to throw out a democratic election, and then voted to do the same after the Capitol was attacked.

There is ample room in our country and in our hearts for forgiveness. That is the path to unity. But it is naive for @GOPLeader to expect us to trust that he has grown beyond his past failures if he can't first admit them to himself.