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BY ALEXANDER BOLTON - 01/07/21 08:54 PM EST
Republican senators say they feel a sense of growing regret over not standing up to President Trump sooner a day after a violent mob ransacked the Capitol building in one of the darkest and most humiliating days in U.S. history.
One Republican senator who requested anonymity to discuss his conversations with GOP colleagues acknowledged GOP lawmakers should have served as a stronger check on the president over the past four years.
We should have done more to push back, both against his rhetoric and some of the things he did legislatively, said the lawmaker. The mistake we made is that we always thought he was going to get better. We thought that once he got the nomination, and then once he got a Cabinet he was going to get better, he was going to be more presidential.
Many Republicans are shell-shocked over the horrific scenes at the Capitol, and seem to be trying to come to grips with their role in the disaster.
The mob that hit the Capitol was filled with people who believed Trumps claims of a rigged election despite a lack of any serious evidence. It served as a symbol of the fact that many Americans are now moving through a reality no longer based on real facts or the truth.
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JHB
(37,161 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,211 posts).
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Bradshaw3
(7,529 posts)Fuck you and every one of your spineless ilk.
mucifer
(23,565 posts)hurple
(1,306 posts)But she thinks he has learned a lesson.
underpants
(182,877 posts)Something binary and finite like that.
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)and I might take notice. Vote to impeach Trump and I will take notice.
RobertDevereaux
(1,858 posts)Blues Heron
(5,940 posts)The Second Coming
By William Butler Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Alpeduez21
(1,755 posts)is a symptom of the disease which is republicans. Never forgive and never forget what repukes want for America. Repukes are racist and misogynists. It really is that simple.
KentuckyWoman
(6,692 posts)I know this is liable to get removed but I had it up to my whatsit with those skunks a long time ago.
They need to wear Trump around their neck like a lead weight and go swim in the Potomoc
JCMach1
(27,572 posts)...profiles in not so much courage!
Luciferous
(6,085 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(15,656 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,730 posts)Or shuttup.
NCDem47
(2,250 posts)When Ds CONTROL the WH and Congress!!
lark
(23,155 posts)They supported him every step of his criminal time in office so are complicit with what happened. Only Romney hasn't been shown to be a total lying seditionist.
MerryBlooms
(11,771 posts)invaded our Capitol, thus the anonymous, worthless statement.