Really feels like there’s roughly a year to demonstrate in as dramatic a fashion as possible that they didn’t get away with this or they’ll get away with so much more going forward.
I feel like the press is fairly comfortable summing it all up as worse than Watergate, but there’s a tacit agreement that talking about jail time is too extreme and would be viewed as too political.
Ironic that Roger Ailes created Fox News to push back against the rule of law impeding GOP momentum and he didn’t live to see that destiny truly fulfilled.
I think after 1/6 some elected Democrats thought Republicans would welcome the chance to purge the grifters and get back to normal, but that thought only should have held until the vote that evening. What was clear then is even clearer now. They made their choice.
Of course, “normal” is a fluid concept anyway.
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