Donald Trump is gone but his big lie is a rallying call for rightwing extremists

[DonViejo]

Ed Pilkington
@edpilkington

Sun 24 Jan 2021 02.00 EST

When the back wheels of Air Force One finally lifted off the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday bound for Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s White House-in-exile in West Palm Beach, cheers erupted in millions of households across America and around the globe.

Four years of screeching tweets and ugly divisiveness were over, and for many it felt like the hope of a calmer, more civil world had swept in.

In one respect, though, the acrid, bitter smell of Trump continues to hang in the air: he left the presidency having never conceded that he lost the election to Joe Biden.

Trump’s decision to shun Biden’s inauguration – the first outgoing president to do so in 152 years – can be explained away as the hissy fit of a sore loser. But there’s a darker side to it. By forgoing the ritual of the peaceful handover of power that has been a pillar of American democracy since the country’s founding, he leaves a black cloud over the incoming administration.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/24/donald-trump-big-lie-american-democracy

[llashram]

1. I'll ask a RWer about

the current stimulus check debate in the Senate. McConnell has rejected that help for American citizens by him trying to cause Democratic Party members in the Senate to lose power again. Why aren't you calling your reps and raising hell about that?

That a majority of RWers all the way to the top tier of your party cheered on the coup attempt by ex-pres trump is a fact. What about when you heard they were targeting anti-trump people for assassination? For execution!!! Now I ask myself why aren't you white supremacists asking your Congressional representative why they don't care about helping suffering American like you? Mine are trying their damndest to help us Democratic Party members.

Yours aren't.