Their brazen attempt to rewrite history is delusional. Stalin and the Communist Party can be rehabilitated if you are Putin and hold unlimited power. To oppose a Big Lie in those circumstances is undertaken at enormous peril.
Closer to home, it was - barely - possible to convince citizens of the case to make war on Iraq in 2003. America …
Their brazen attempt to rewrite history is delusional. Stalin and the Communist Party can be rehabilitated if you are Putin and hold unlimited power. To oppose a Big Lie in those circumstances is undertaken at enormous peril.
Closer to home, it was - barely - possible to convince citizens of the case to make war on Iraq in 2003. America is a free country, but at that moment in history it was reeling from the havoc wrought by hatred emanating from the Middle East. A Republican dominated Congress was only too willing to lend loud moral support to the President and his arrogant acolytes. There were rumblings from the citizenry to be sure, but the media beat the drums of war fiercely and a sizable majority of Americans absorbed the war in their stride, unable to distinguish one Middle East country from another. Today’s “Na Na hey hey...” was yesterday’s “Freedom Fries”.
But these are different times. The Republicans hold no power federally. Their grasp on the levers of the media is tenuous at best. Even the monkeys behind those organ grinders have to tread with some care. The Dominion voting machine case was instructive in showing their limits.
In this situation their attempt to sweep the insurrection under the rug is cringeworthy. The Republicans in Washington are effectively now the purveyors of *two* big lies and the best they can do is obfuscate. They are richly earning the contempt of millions. And as cases come to trial and, God willing, the President is indicted, tried and removed from public view, their illusion of having 74 million supporters still will be brutally exposed.
Yesterday’s events are laughable. These lies are born of desperation, not arrogance. Some of the most brazen purveyors of the dual lies may be doing so because they face criminal exposure.
It is tedious to have to call them out on a regular basis. But it is vitally necessary. There must be constant pressure on the Department of Justice, the legal system in general and the Democratic Party itself to bring maximum sunlight and thus accountability to these scoundrels. A failure of nerve here will not be countermanded by a hundred Infrastructure bills.
Their brazen attempt to rewrite history is delusional. Stalin and the Communist Party can be rehabilitated if you are Putin and hold unlimited power. To oppose a Big Lie in those circumstances is undertaken at enormous peril.
Closer to home, it was - barely - possible to convince citizens of the case to make war on Iraq in 2003. America is a free country, but at that moment in history it was reeling from the havoc wrought by hatred emanating from the Middle East. A Republican dominated Congress was only too willing to lend loud moral support to the President and his arrogant acolytes. There were rumblings from the citizenry to be sure, but the media beat the drums of war fiercely and a sizable majority of Americans absorbed the war in their stride, unable to distinguish one Middle East country from another. Today’s “Na Na hey hey...” was yesterday’s “Freedom Fries”.
But these are different times. The Republicans hold no power federally. Their grasp on the levers of the media is tenuous at best. Even the monkeys behind those organ grinders have to tread with some care. The Dominion voting machine case was instructive in showing their limits.
In this situation their attempt to sweep the insurrection under the rug is cringeworthy. The Republicans in Washington are effectively now the purveyors of *two* big lies and the best they can do is obfuscate. They are richly earning the contempt of millions. And as cases come to trial and, God willing, the President is indicted, tried and removed from public view, their illusion of having 74 million supporters still will be brutally exposed.
Yesterday’s events are laughable. These lies are born of desperation, not arrogance. Some of the most brazen purveyors of the dual lies may be doing so because they face criminal exposure.
It is tedious to have to call them out on a regular basis. But it is vitally necessary. There must be constant pressure on the Department of Justice, the legal system in general and the Democratic Party itself to bring maximum sunlight and thus accountability to these scoundrels. A failure of nerve here will not be countermanded by a hundred Infrastructure bills.