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Opinion: There is no hope of saving the Republican Party
Mark P. Painter
Wed, February 23, 2022, 8:30 AM
Deputy Views Editor Matty Mendez writes about the Republican National Committee’s censure of two representatives, and its impact on the party.
Deputy Views Editor Matty Mendez writes about the Republican National Committee’s censure of two representatives, and its impact on the party.
As of February 2022, it is now official and incontrovertible: the Republican Party is the party of sedition.
The official governing board, the Republican National Committee declared that January 6, 2021, rioters who attacked the Capitol were "ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse." So the rebels and thugs breaking into our Capitol, by hitting, choking, and smashing police officers in the head with fire extinguishers, shouting "Hang Mike Pence," were engaging in the same activities as a high school debate club.
These "ordinary citizens" had just been whipped into insurrection by the Big Lie – by Donald Trump, the execrable Jim Jordan, and others who wanted the mob to forcibly stop Congress from doing its duty to certify the results of an election that Trump’s own Department of Homeland Security called "the most secure in American history."
We have since learned that the insurrection was planned. Not a "demonstration" that went too far, but an attempted coup. The plan was to intimidate Mike Pence to refuse to certify the duly elected electors, have the Republican House pick bogus electors from states that voted for Joe Biden, and keep Trump in office.
FILE - Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, Nov. 30, 2021. Pence said Friday in a speech in Florida that the former president is simply “wrong" when he says Pence had the right to unilaterally “overturn the election.” (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) ORG XMIT: WX309