Remember how shocking it was to many in 1995 that Newt Gingrich, the Speaker of the freaking House, gave air to the evidence-free conspiracy theory that the Clinton& #39;s had Vince Foster murdered?
Remember non-existent WMD& #39;s? Remember the Swift Boaters for Truth? Remember Birtherism? Remember the menacingly yuge migrant caravan at the border that mysteriously disappeared the day after the 2018 election?
I& #39;m not so naive as to think we could ever create a political culture entirely void of lying and dirty tricks. But it seems quite bad that one party, the GOP, has discovered that they can make up any old shit and a huge chunk of their voters will believe it.
It& #39;s decades of lying about Vince Foster, WMDs, Swift Boats, Obama& #39;s birth certificate, migrant caravans, etc. that has produced a GOP base that overwhelmingly believes Biden did not really win in 2020 and January 6 was either a) fine, or b) an antifa false flag.
The consequences for these lies have only gotten more significant. On January 6 we came 60 seconds and a few wrong turns by insurgents away from a potentially murderous coup. What reason do we have to believe another iteration of this process won& #39;t happen in 2022 or 2024?
If the GOP banishes everyone like Liz Cheney who& #39;s willing to tell the truth about the 2020 election, then we should assume their strategy for every future election is to do what they did in 2020--which is to try to steal it, 1st by legal shenanigans, then violently if necessary.
Kinzinger understood and understands the consequence of such massive lying campaigns. It’s a shame that he and Cheney are two of the few Republicans with sufficient integrity to speak honestly about this. https://twitter.com/adamkinzinger/status/1391746518206533634">https://twitter.com/adamkinzi...
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