And as Kevin McCarthy and other Republican leaders who don’t want to see Trump impeached try to pivot to kumbayah “better angels of our nature” “why can’t we all just get along” “it is time for national healing” talk, the reality that “stop the steal” is complete bullshit needs to be reiterated again and again and again. The events of January 6 were not about a legitimate difference of opinion that we can put behind us now. The Republican members of congress who voted against certifying electors were playing along with the highly toxic lie that motivated the rioters who took over the capital in a pathetic but bloody and very real coup attempt just a few hours before. They endorsed the election fraud lie and voted to overturn the results of a free and fair election. They participated in the coup attempt. Now that they're reaping what they have sown it is understandable that so many of them want to "just move on." That cannot be allowed to happen.
It would be a great thing for our country for political leaders of both parties to reach a level of political amity where they can work together to solve the daunting problems that are before us. But no truce of that kind can ever happen until Republicans loudly, forthrightly, unequivocally renounce the bullshit so many of them have perpetrated.
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