Protecting and restoring faith in our institutions is exactly what we need to be doing right now.
But a fear of accusations of ‘partisanship’ can also be exploited by bad faith actors in ways that actively do the opposite.
The narrative war has not stopped.
Trump appointees in our government will attempt to whitewash his administration and cover up his wrongdoing, just as surely as Republicans are working to do the same in the Senate as we speak.
We simply, sadly, cannot afford to make the mistake of assuming good faith behavior.
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During the 2018 midterms, Turning Point USA’s troll farm, Rally Forge, set up a fake progressive group on Facebook to convince leftwing voters in key races to support the Green Party.
Facebook knew, and did nothing until after the election.
Facebook allows right wing group to pretend to be leftists to split the Dem vote.
Member of the group to FEC: ‘Gee, I’m just new, I didn’t know about these laws.’
Trump’s FEC: ‘We won’t pursue this. How *dare* you ask us to.’
6 months later, group admits it used Rally Forge.
Trump’s FEC Commissioner James “Trey” Trainor, literally scolded the watchdog group for bringing the case to the FEC, and somehow asserted that “APN was established by an unsophisticated individual trying to show his support for several third party candidates.”
Heritage and ALEC have been working, together, to write the archaic voter suppression laws that are being passed by Republican legislatures in Georgia, Texas, and other states.
Both of those organizations were founded by Paul Weyrich.
Weyrich is also the reason that abortion was weaponized as a political wedge, to consolidate evangelical voters under the Republican Party - and, originally to deny Jimmy Carter a second term.
In 1981, after working to elect Reagan with the evangelical vote, he founded the CNP with Rev. Tim LaHaye - an evangelical preacher, head of the "Moral Majority," and author of the rapturous Left Behind series.
I am not trying to imply that they will get away with it.
This is just further evidence (if we needed any more) for why Dems need to drop all of the bipartisanship efforts on a commission, and create a Select Committee to investigate the insurrectikn, sooner rather than later.
Remember, on a private call with Republicans about HR-1, Koch’s Research Director said “there’s a large, very large, chunk of conservatives who are supportive of these types of efforts.”
And so he said they would need to use “under-the-dome-type strategies” to stop it.