It will shock you how much it never happened.
In the week following Liz Cheney’s purge for the crime of speaking honestly about the former president’s unprecedented, if buffoonish, attempt to overthrow the election and stay in power against the will of the people, Republicans have taken out their neuralyzer and moved deliberately and unapologetically down the path of January 6 erasure.
- A witness to the president’s support for a domestic terror assault on the Capitol refuses to testify.
- A congressman tries to retcon his support for overturning the election on national TV.
- A Republican campaign committee rewards the members who tried to “Stop The Steal.”
- A senator who spearheaded the legislative coup is given massive platforms to promote his book about being silenced.
For the GOP, memory-holing the insurrection is the point.
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