Thread by @ThePlumLineGS

Let's stop saying the 1/6 commission is the victim of "partisan infighting." Only one side wants a real accounting. The party of Trump, Stop the Steal and Marjorie Taylor Green cannot credibly pretend its objections are about its structure. My latest:
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Until Republicans fully admit to these three things, they can't participate in a genuine accounting:

* Insurrection was incited by Trump

* Rioters were inspired by lies that Republicans themselves fueled

* Biggest radical threat is right wing extremism

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Awful to watch the idea that "the left made us do it" becoming so widespread.

Ron DeSantis just claimed Republicans should punish corporations who are allegedly manipulated by the "extreme left."

Tucker says the left is pushing the right into fascism:

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The battle over the commission is constantly portrayed as devolving into “partisan” politics. But only one side actually wants a real accounting. This wild imbalance will remain until Republicans are prepared to fully renounce all these pathologies:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…

For a deep dive into this kind of deranged anti-leftism, here's @lkatfield chronicling how Trumpy intellectuals are trafficking in it extensively, creating "disorientation and distrust that destroys the very possibility of liberal democracy."

niskanencenter.org/the-highbrow-c…