"For evil to flourish, good men forget who they are...
they begin to regard duty and the obligations of civilization itself as oppression. They raise up ignorance, hate, and especially violent rage as strengths and sneer in contempt at compassion, charity, and selflessness."
"When your entire ideology is based on outrage, then the only way to maintain power is to stoke the fires of hate into an inferno of bitter white hot rage.
When rage becomes the only emotion you can feel, well, that only ends one way, in violence and blood."
~@Stonekettle
"Germany could not stop its slide to destruction & those people, the craven cowards & the innocent & the monsters alike, had to ride the horror all the way down.
But we have their terrible example before us & we don't have to suffer the same fate.
"There can be no soft-pedaling what happened and no absolution for those who planned, encouraged and aided the attempt to overthrow our democracy.
Do yourself a favor and look through @AnnTelnaes visual & textual representation of those involved in Trump's attempt to overthrow American democracy and install himself as an authoritarian leader over the USA.
"Then the assistant attorney general, Clark sought to topple his boss, acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen, by agreeing to do for Trump what Rosen refused to do — bully Georgia election officials."
"Ali Alexander with GOP Reps. Mo Brooks, Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar
Alexander, leader of Stop the Steal, said in a since-deleted video that the three Republican congressmen helped plan how to put “maximum pressure on Congress” during the counting of electoral college votes."
"Precisely because this GOP opposition is a foregone conclusion, Republicans are too rarely asked by reporters to justify it. This in turn causes that opposition to become accepted as a natural, unalterable ... condition of political life"
~@ThePlumLineGS washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
"[GOP] opposition fades into the background as a factor in what’s happening. It faces less serious scrutiny, and the story that’s foregrounded is that Democratic infighting is the only reason for congressional inaction."
"In an interview ...Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro lays out the plot to overturn the election.
...
what’s remarkable here — while also familiar — is how forthrightly Navarro is copping to the plot, as if it was no big deal, really."
"It’s been no secret that Donald Trump tried to leverage VP Mike Pence’s historically ceremonial role overseeing the counting of electoral votes in his effort to overturn the election. But it wasn’t until September that we got a sense of the full scope of the plan"
Trump "was riveted to the TV screen, watching his most glorious moment and ignoring pleas from, among others, his daughter Ivanka and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to stop the violence."
"we should pay more attention to the news that Goldman Sachs has downgraded the US growth forecast, in response to Manchin’s opposition to BBB."
~@ThePlumLineGS