The Big Lie has gotten so bad that even some Republicans are running from it

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Striking: The chair of the Republican Attorneys General Association just resigned amid fallout from the group's vile robocall urging people to turn out on Jan 6 to "Stop the Steal."

The Big Lie is getting so bad that even Republicans are running from it:

Opinion | The Big Lie has gotten so bad that even some Republicans are running from it
Here and there, a few Republicans are resisting the party's drift into full blown anti-democratic madness.
washingtonpost.com
7:33 AM · Apr 22, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/22/republicans-chris-carr-running-from-big-lie/

The Big Lie of 2020 is conventionally defined as the claim that the election was stolen from Donald Trump. But it’s broader than that. It also encompasses a softer version of this idea: The insultingly disingenuous baloney that because GOP voters have reasonable grounds to merely lack confidence in the results, all sorts of new voting restrictions are justified.

Taken all together, this bundle of falsehoods and pathologies is now getting so absurd and unsustainable that more Republicans are running away from it.

This is driven home by two new developments — the resignation of a senior Republican from a national group over continued fallout from the “Stop the Steal” madness, and news of more Republicans criticizing various GOP voter suppression efforts.

The chair of the Republican Attorneys General Association has just resigned his post, amid criticism of the group for sponsoring a now-infamous robocall urging people to descend on the Capitol to “Stop the Steal.” That echoed Trump’s campaign to overturn the results, which incited the Jan. 6 violent attack.

The official, Chris Carr — who is also Georgia’s attorney general — explained his resignation in a letter obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Carr cited a “fundamental difference” amid the group’s members over “the significance of the events of January 6.” Specifically, he noted, some members resisted accepting the recent resignation of the group’s executive director over the robocalls, which urged “patriots” to attend the rally to defend “election integrity.”

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1. All the junk they make up is hard even for them to keep straight