Opinion: As Impeachment Trial Begins, Let's Remember The Republican History Of Big Lies
BY TIM LIBRETTI at Politicususa
Opinion: As Impeachment Trial Begins, Let’s Remember The Republican History Of Big Lies
https://www.politicususa.com/2021/02/07/opinion-as-impeachment-trial-begins-lets-remember-the-republican-history-of-big-lies.html
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Donald’s Trump insistence that he actually won the 2016 presidential election in a landslide has now been commonly termed the “big lie.”
This “big lie,” which Trump mobilized arguably to incite the white supremacist assault on the Capitol, will center, of course, next week’s impeachment trial in the Senate.
The assault on the Capitol has been understood as an assault on democracy itself, and Trump’s “big lie” has in many ways epitomized the anti-democratic character of his presidency in its entirety, which featured a seemingly endless and relentless barrage of lie and lie.
Of course, Trump’s behavior has caused Republicans to break ranks—or, rather, to strategically and deceptively practice a political distancing from Trump and the Republican Party.
Let’s be clear, though, that this political distancing is just that— a matter of political strategy, not one of ideological difference, regardless of what they say.
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