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Sat May 22, 2021, 01:18 PM May 2021

Ex-Bush Aide Gives Chilling Reality Check About Continued GOP Capitulation To Trump

Peter Wehner warns of more U.S. Capitol riot-style political violence should the GOP continue regurgitating ex-President Donald Trump’s 2020 election lies.

Wehner wrote in The Atlantic this week that “political violence will become more acceptable and more prevalent on the American right” if the Republican Party “doesn’t counteract these lies rather than indulge them.”

The GOP remains “fully in Trump’s thrall, with its leadership more committed than ever to spreading his foundational lies and conspiracy theories,” said Wehner, who served in the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush and was a fervent critic of Trump throughout his one term in office.

Some elected Republicans “who initially reacted with horror” to the deadly U.S. Capitol riot that was incited by Trump were “now making their peace with it,” he wrote. And that’s “where things really get dangerous.”

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/peter-wehner-donald-trump-gop-violence-100508023.html

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Ex-Bush Aide Gives Chilling Reality Check About Continued GOP Capitulation To Trump (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2021 OP
The republican party doesn't care. SergeStorms May 2021 #1
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