A GOP reckoning
By JULIE PACE
today
... “People took him literally. I never thought I would see that,” said Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s former chief of staff. Mulvaney resigned his post as special envoy to Northern Ireland last week after the riots.
That argument reveals the extent to which many Republicans have willingly turned a blind eye throughout Trump’s presidency to some of the forces coursing through America. Each time Trump promoted a conspiracy theory or openly flirted with extremist groups, Republicans assumed there were still some limits to how far he and his most loyal supporters would go.
Few seemed concerned about the worst-case scenarios, dismissing fears of violence or authoritarianism as liberal fever dreams.
Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey, who backed Trump in the 2020 election but is now calling for him to resign, cast Trump’s actions after his loss as a dark shift, despite the fact that the president laid the groundwork for challenging the election before the first votes were cast ...
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-politics-mick-mulvaney-elections-d545650fc6258558e446107782e3f211
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