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   From: liamhardshell@bikerider.com   
      
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   > | ...   
   > | For everyone who had convinced themselves that, whatever   
   > | Trump's flaws, the true threat to the American way of life   
   > | lay on the left and only on the left, January 6th was a   
   > | blaring klaxon. Yes, Trump was a buffoon and incompetent   
   > | and unfamiliar with the levers of power--and yet this clown   
   > | nearly brought a 232-year-old democracy to its knees. Had   
   > | it not been for 1) a half-dozen or so Republican   
   > | officeholders at the state level who demonstrated basic   
   > | integrity, and 2) the unwillingness of Mike Pence to   
   > | perform as Trump had commanded, the outcome could have been   
   > | very different. As George F. Will said, "I would like to   
   > | see January 6th burned into the American mind as firmly as   
   > | 9/11 because it was that scale of a shock to the system."   
   > |   
   > | The most threatening aspect of January 6th was not the   
   > | ferocious attack on the Capitol but the response of   
   > | Republican officeholders thereafter. Even after the   
   > | unleashing of medieval mob violence; even after the   
   > | erection of a gallows; even after members had been forced   
   > | to run for their lives; even after the deaths and injuries;   
   > | even after all of that and more, 147 Republican members of   
   > | Congress voted not to certify Joe Biden as the winner of   
   > | the presidency. The transformation of the GOP from a   
   > | political party into an authoritarian personality cult   
   > | became official that day. McCarthy's bootlicking visit to   
   > | Mar-a-Lago in late January 2021 merely provided the visual.   
   > | ...   
   >   
   >   
   >    --bks   
   >   
   >   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)