Thread by @Dreamweasel

The only people who truly believe the January 6 investigation needs to be “bipartisan” are the ones who wanted the January 6 insurrection to succeed washingtonpost.com/politics/pelos…

That’s the real ideological divide.

It isn’t “Was Trump responsible for the deadly attack?” We all know that is true.

It’s “Was Trump justified in his interference with the certification of Biden as President?”

Like it or not, the GOP overwhlemingly believes that he was.

I share with you my thoughts at the time, which I concede have not aged as well as I’d hoped.

I had momentarily forgotten that there is no “mainstream” in American politics anymore. We have committed liberals, committed conservatives, and people who simply DGAF about politics.

https://twitter.com/Dreamweasel/status/1346928938543689738

In my defense, I implore any of you who remember watching the events of January 6th unfold on live TV, and how unlikely it would have been to reach the conclusion “The GOP will be completely fine with this, and in a couple of months most Americans will forget it ever happened.”

In the past six years, the Republican Party has become the Party of Trump and the Democratic Party has become the Party of Not Trump.

Meanwhile, the “Don’t Care About Politics; They’re All the Same LOL” demographic remains steadfast and unbending.

So were any minds actually changed by Trump’s attempted coup of the American Presidency?

Any Republican Senators in the Capitol Building that day who wondered if the Cult of Trump Always Wins was just maybe getting out of hand?

Anyone wanna hang with Mike Pence and find out?