KOS: Republican efforts to rewrite what happened on Jan. 6 show the entire party is a con
When Republicans commit themselves to spreading a lie, they don’t do it halfway. The latest lie that Republicans are going
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Opinion
Rush Limbaugh and the right-wing echo chamber (Sean Illing Interviews Paul Matzko)
It’s hard to appreciate the reach of talk radio if, like me, you don’t listen to it and don’t know anyone who does. Although the industry has been ailing over the last several years, tens of millions of Americans still listen to it each week (a precise number is hard to come by, but it’s massive) and many of them are listening to a lot of it. For better or worse, talk radio does as much to shape the reality of millions of Americans as any other medium in the country.
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Republicans are afraid that Trump’s second impeachment trial is going to be ’embarassing’
Talking about the actual events of Jan. 6, and Donald Trump’s actions that led to men in paramilitary garb searching through the House chamber for hostages could be deeply embarrassing to Republicans. As eternal Trump advisor Steve Bannon notes, “The Democrats have a very emotional and compelling case. They’re going to try to convict him in the eyes of the American people and smear him forever.”
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WAPO Opinion | On his final day, Trump demeaned the presidency one more time
Mr. Trump’s final official acts added to the malodor, as he granted clemency to a raft of corrupt cronies, former officials and white-collar criminals.
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WAPO Opinion | Cruz and Hawley have a big problem with new Capitol riot video
The footage illustrates with great force just how tightly bound up that big lie — that the election was illegitimate — was in the rioters’ motivations. The enablers of this lie badly want to flush this truth down the memory hole.
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Opinion | Trump should be criminally investigated
This riot, of course, did not happen by accident. For weeks, Trump and his allies whipped up his supporters by spreading false claims of election fraud.
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Kimmel on Angry Trump Mob Storming Capitol
Jimmy Kimmel on Angry Trump Mob Storming Capitol (video)
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Daily Kos: Capitol Siege the culmination of the GOP’s long embrace of authoritarianism
This radical authoritarianism was evident not just in the intent of the Capitol siege—an insurrectionist attempt to force Congress to overturn the known results of the November presidential election—but in the faces and voices of the men and women who comprised Wednesday’s mob.
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NYT: How Trump’s Allies Are Still Defending Him: Denial, Deflection, Disinformation
Even as scores of President Trump’s usually unfailing loyalists condemned him for moving too slowly to call off the swarm of demonstrators that stormed and ransacked the Capitol, many of his most vocal and visible allies in Congress, the media and conservative politics still could not bring themselves to fault him for the surreal and frightening attack carried out by people he had just urged to “fight like hell.”
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Trump has been undone by tape ‘in a way that no other president has’: John Heilmann (video)
Trump has been undone by tape ‘in a way that no other president has’: John Heilmann (video)
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