Thread by @reedgalen

On this #January6th, let's review the last two years. First, we should thank those officers who put themselves between the insurrectionists and American democracy. We should take an extra moment for those who gave their last full measure of devotion...1/

Never forget that #January6th was a conspiracy begun and driven by Donald Trump and his cronies. @MaryLTrump told us he'd never leave peacefully and she was correct. He was aided and abetted by dozens, if not hundreds who were happy to see democracy fall for their own gain...2/

At the Capitol that day, the likes of @HawleyMO and @tedcruz objected to an election they knew was free and fair because they believed it was good for their 'brands' and would help them win #MAGA support down the road. Both are cynics who don't belong in office...3/

Not to be outdone, 147 members of the @HouseGOP also voted not to certify the 2020 election for @POTUS. 132 of those (a majority of the current GOP conference) remain in office today. There is nothing 'moderate' about them...4/

Weeks after #January6th, @GOPLeader, who claimed anger at the attack and was caught on tape saying Trump should resign, went to Mar-A-Lago and absolved Trump of his responsibility for the attack. This man now wants to be Speaker of the House. He is no 'moderate...' 5/

Across the Capitol, @LeaderMcConnell and his conference could have ensured Americans never had to endure Trump on the ballot again. But when the time came, they let him off the hook, worried about their own power...Mitch and Co. are appeasers - at best...6/

#January6th was not the end of the Trump presidency, but the beginning of #UltraMAGA's final march through the Republican Party. What's left of the "Establishment" wing of the GOP is a rump, beaten and battered and hoping the storm will pass them by. It won't...7/

Now, as we watch @GOPLeader flop about like a goldfish out of its bowl, know that two years on, the fight for American #democracy is still upon us. @mattgaetz and @laurenboebert aren't outliers: They're the heart and of today's Republican Party...8/

A party that's embraced its white nationalism, its hatefulness, its authoritarian and inhumane core and extolled those traits as virtue. What we're witnessing now is just the beginning of two years of firebombing democracy in the name of 'freedom.' Don't buy it. 9/x