Republicans back away from confronting Trump and his loyalists after the Capitol insurrection

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FUCKING COWARDS ONE AND ALL....

Republicans back away from confronting Trump and his loyalists after the Capitol insurrection, embracing them instead.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced little more than a week ago that the mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol had been “provoked” by Donald Trump. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Trump “bears responsibility” for failing to respond more quickly to the bloody incursion.

But that was then.

The nation’s two most powerful elected Republicans have signaled that they are ready to look past questions of responsibility for the violent effort to overturn the result of the presidential election, an attempt that left a Capitol Police officer and four rioters dead, as they maneuver to avoid a divisive battle within the Republican Party and try to position it to reclaim power in 2022.

McConnell (R-Ky.) voted Tuesday against a procedural motion to proceed with Trump’s impeachment in the Senate, while McCarthy (R-Calif.) planned to meet with Trump in Florida on Thursday to mend relations that were frayed by the Jan. 6 attack, according to an adviser to the former president.

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[Thekaspervote]

1. Their spineless plan is exactly why they will continue to lose.

Registered republicans are leaving the party in droves, even more since 1/6. Posted here yesterday 30,000 in the Tampa Bay Area alone

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2. Seems striking to have 30,000 leave without an apparent special local situation

[AllaN01Bear]

3. they forgot their loyalty to the country and instead squandered it away to him.