Posted on 06/19/2022 4:16:18 PM PDT by karpov
It’s understandable that Democrats would want to constantly revisit Jan. 6 — to invoke it, investigate it and sacralize it even.
It’s a mystery, at least from a certain level of abstraction, why Republicans would want to have anything to do with that day or want to fixate on the 2020 election.
The party is on the cusp of a midterm triumph, has enormous openings on the economy and education thanks to Biden administration stumbles and left-wing overreach, is making inroads among Hispanic voters and has a well-stocked political bench that Democrats should envy.
Yet the GOP is stuck litigating the past almost entirely because its putative leader in Mar-a-Lago is incapable of admitting error or defeat and will never stop trying to excuse and explain away his infamous conduct after November 2020.
You can argue that Jan. 6 wasn’t an insurrection; that the composition of the committee is unfair and lacks the adversarial element that has always been presumed to be central to the workings of such bodies; that the revelations or supposed revelations from the committee are being overhyped; and that Trump, whatever his failings, didn’t commit crimes and shouldn’t be charged with one.
In fact, I agree with every one of those propositions. But none of them makes Jan. 6 any better or makes it good.
It’s not quite true, as is often said, that every election is about the future. Republicans waved the bloody shirt of the Civil War for years. Democrats ran against Herbert Hoover for as long as they could. Republicans still talk about Jimmy Carter.
In all these instances, though, a party made a focal point of a low and embarrassing moment for the other side, not its own.
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We’ve had them. They always lose.
Rich Lowry wants the GOP to go back to importing and amnestying a permanent Democrat majority.
They’re back to picking our “electable” leaders, I see.
Failure to recognize the problem (stolen election) precludes any chance of fairness in future elections.
I have no use for a candidate who thinks 2020 was fair. What I like about 45 is that he doesn’t lay down like all the rest. He got cheated out of the presidency by media bias, let alone the vote dumps etc.
IF YOU do not know right from wrong-—stay out of the opinion columns.
You are a fraud.
“Never mind the infamous conduct of the Democrats cheating in November 2020”........................
The Republicans need to ignore Rupert Murdoch and nominate Trump again in 2024.
Who? Someone like Romney or McLane? No thanks.
The never-Trump clown from NR is back.
I mean really, what exactly did he expect to accomplish with a rally. He played right into their hands
I hope he runs and if he does I'm still voting for him but he has to think more tactically than he did and stop putting traitors in his cabinet
STFU you LIMP WRISTED PRE-GAY man......you are so WEAK, it’s PATHETIC! GROW A PAIR! Or just ONE!
McLane = McLame
Maybe having the problem that those who blow off the past are doomed to
allow cheating to happen again. And again.etc.
lowery is a stupefied moron and an idiot to boot.
Soy Boy strikes again
I will also dogpile on Lowry. He makes the world a worse place.
Rich Lowry douche canoe.
We need a BRAVEHEART, someone ruthless. Someone that cuts to the core, not a slight turn to the right... We need to be going in the opposite direction, something stark. Trump can do this. Others are bell weather politicians.
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