All Republicans in house, and 45 to 49 of 50 Republicans in senate would vote, right now, to overturn 2020 election and install Donald Trump as president for another term: move would be super popular with Republican voters.
Republican Party is a fully owned subsidiary of the Trump Family. There is no division or turmoil with the Party: crazy representative spouting xenophobic, racist, Islamophobic, antisemitic crap is not being censured by the Party because (1) they agree with her (2) base loves it.
Mainstream media, their own legitimacy built on false equivalency of the parties & false reverence for our crumbling institutions, is desperate to legitimize Republican Party, even as they very publicly backed an insurrection & would obviously end the republic to regain power.
Objectivity, what mainstream media should strive for & what it claims it strives for, is built on the truth, reality, not making people comfortable. We need more objective media to counter the pro-Republican bias of false equivalency that has infested mainstream media.
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I have had same conversation 1,000's times in last 5 years:
Well-meaning academics & journalists: you should devote your time to studying disinformation from Russians on social media
Me: you should devote your time to studying disinformation from Republicans on mainstream media
False equivalency blinded journalists, but also academics, who confused falsely equating the validity the Republican & Democratic Party with "objectivity" when it was actually the exact opposite: it was blinding them from the obvious truth that one party had become disloyal to US
Everyone is comfortable chasing Russians in social media, because then you don't have to admit the org threatening US is one of two parties that dominates every aspect of our republic, and that their mode of distribution is not one of our core institutions: the mainstream media.
The Constitution provides that the House of Representatives ‘‘shall have the sole Power of Impeachment’’ and that the President ‘‘shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors’’. 2/17
Further, section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution prohibits any person who has ‘‘engaged in insurrection or rebellion against’’ the United States from ‘‘hold[ing] any office . . . under the United States’’. 3/17
Republicans want US to forgive & forget their violent insurrection at the Capitol, 6 day ago, but: 1) No forgiveness without accountability. 2) No unity with white nationalists. 3) We cannot move on while they are still, literally, threatening another attack in the next few days.
Before any consideration of forgiveness or unity: Republican leaders unequivocally call off the violence they have planned this weekend into the Inauguration.
Its basically 5 PM ET, seems reasonable to start drinking.
It was just earlier *this week* that President Trump threatened the Georgia Secretary of State to overturn the presidential election in his state, on tape. That was Sunday!
It was *3 days ago* that Democrats captured both senate seats in GA to win senate (along w/ house & presidency). Republicans did not take it well: Trump, Hawley, Cruz, >50% of Republicans in house, orchestrated a bloody take-over of the Capitol to try to block transfer of power.
If I need to sum up my Twitter feed for past 4 years it has basically been yelling this at political & media elite. Hence why I woke up super angry this morning that they have been mocking & derided this warning from atop their high horses for the last 4 years.
.@chucktodd a poster-boy for people whose quest for access, proximity to power, has blinded them to the reality of the Republican Party & right-wing terrorism, was literally on @MSNBC comparing McConnell to Churchill, as terrorists were storming the Capitol.
.@chucktodd just wanted so badly to absolve the Republican leadership of their nurture & protection of Trumpism over the last 4 years, he was willing to toss 4 years corruption, incompetence, cruelty, authoritarianism, and outright disloyalty to US, away for one decent speech.