.@lizcheney talked about the miserable reality that many GOP Members of Congress were intimidated by threats of violence by Political extremists aligned with Trump. When the people’s representatives are intimidated by thuggish threats that means we are no longer living in a free
Country. The other thing that @Liz_Cheney talked about is the likelihood of discovering what role Members of Congress played in coordinating, communicating and supporting the insurrection. Some people say that saying Trumps’ name out loud enables and strengthens him. 2/
This view seems rooted in a perspective that Trump’s strength and power can be measured by an evaluation of his social media metrics. This school of thought looks at Trump’s Twitter and Facebook ban coupled with other instances of low engagement tactical platforms and concludes 3
he is waning and mentioning his name supplies a gasping tyrant the oxygen he needs to vandalize the Biden Presidency and our civic life. This is a profoundly naive view and a delusional measurement of Trump’s relative power which is key to understanding the proximity of grave 4/
danger to our most cherished ideals. Trump is powerful and dangerous because he is the leader of a delusional cult of personality around which the senior elected leadership of the GOP has prostrated itself. They have walked away from American democracy in the name of Trump. 5/
Trump has demonstrated that he can kill with his words and get away with it. He has proven that he can impose a delusion over reality for tens of millions and that his brittle ego will never forgive fantasies of betrayal or deviations from dogma around the great lie of the 6/
stolen election. Trump’s movement is ascendant and consolidating power in a shrinking GOP. It requires clear eyed confrontation. The Congress has an absolute moral duty to investigate the events of January 6th. That day is a hinge in the story of America and the residue of 7/
that murderous hour will define politics in this country for the next generation. Moving on is a fantasy. We live in a present that will yield to a future of emboldened extremism, radicalism, racism and political violence absent accountability for the inciters of the 1/6 attack.
Opposition to the formation of the Commission is an act of legislative malice in the name of Trump, who attacked and incited murder against the American Republic because his profoundly disordered psyche could not absorb the reality of his decisive repudiation by the 9/
American people. The objections being offered by Trump’s legislative lemmings in the Senate are equally preposterous and disingenuous. In the end, to no surprise it’s just another example of the greatest collective breach of duty in American history -bar none. Shameful conduct
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