Ashli Babbitt went to Capitol Hill and crawled through broken glass because she wanted Mike Pence to die. @MariaBartiromo calls her a “wonderful woman.”
Consider the message this sends to other elected Republicans: not only will Donald Trump glorify the 1/6 lynch mob; so will Fox News. “Ride or die.”
And if they can effectively target Mike Pence for death and suffer no consequences, anything is on the table. You can’t expect the rank-and-file to openly resist this violent agitation. They have families.
Defeat this anti-American faction at every level of government.
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This section on the failures of the early American Confederation seems particularly relevant to current debates about how much power a minority faction in the US Senate ought to have.
"To give a minority a negative upon the majority (which is always the case where more than a majority is requisite to a decision), is, in its tendency, to subject the sense of the greater number to that of the lesser."
The 1/6 commission (or select committee) should investigate and make recommendations, but it should also be a forum for senior officials to explain why they held Trump responsible for the insurrection. thebulwark.com/make-them-test…
Betsy DeVos: “we are left to clean up the mess caused by violent protesters overrunning the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to undermine the people’s business. . . . There is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me.”
Bill Barr: “Orchestrating a mob to pressure Congress is inexcusable... The President’s conduct yesterday was a betrayal of his office and supporters.”
"The Republican Party of the future cannot — not tacitly, not quietly, not in the slightest — encourage grievance or stoke anger... [nor can it] continue to endorse the view that any election lost to Democrats constitutes the literal end of the country."
"What we saw on Jan. 6, 2021, is not a surprising result when people are falsely told their votes are meaningless because the elections are 'rigged' and democracy in America is a sham."