Giving the GOP credit for the work of Democrats is indeed an "unpopular"--and inaccurate--take. The 150 GOP members of Congress who participated in the sedition are all still in Congress AND the leader of that fight to overturn the election is House Minority Leader, McCarthy.
https://twitter.com/speechboy71/status/1353013992961286144
The Constitution prevailed because Pelosi, Schumer, the Democrats and Mitch McConnell's fealty to his own power prevailed. And the police and National Guard removed the insurrectionists. But pretending we didn't come *thisclose* to losing this fight would be naïve madness.
Even this morning Kevin McCarthy is trying to claim that we ALL bear responsibility for the attack on the Capitol. Not only is this counterfactual, but that event was spurred by TWO MONTHS of Trump, McCarthy, Scalise, Graham, Cruz, Hawley & more claiming the election was rigged.
McConnell refused to acknowledge the election results until the votes were certified on Dec14--five weeks and 70 Trump and GOP lawsuits after the vote was called on Nov. 7. So no--the GOP gets ZERO credit here. They are trying to gaslight their way out of what actually happened.
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