Republicans Promised to Banish Jan. 6 Insurrectionists. A Year Later, They've Purged Jan. 6 Critics
A year ago, top Republicans were clear-eyed — and forceful — in their repudiations of president Trump, blaming him directly for the Jan 6 insurrection at the Capitol and blasting his false claims that he was robbed of a second term.
How a year can change people.
Republicans, with very rare exceptions, have lost the courage of their supposed convictions, and fallen back into a complicit orbit around the center of grievance and gravity that defines Donald Trump and, by extension, the modern GOP. “At the end of the day,” Michigan GOP Rep. Peter Meijer admitted morbidly on “Meet the Press” to begin 2022, “there’s no other option right now in the Republican Party.”
In the immediate aftermath of Jan. 6, 2021, a different path for the GOP appeared to have opened: The party’s top leaders, and even some of Trump’s lapdogs, turned on him. “The president bears responsibility for [the] attack by mob rioters,” insisted House minority leader Kevin McCarthy, calling for a congressional censure of the president. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell declared Trump was “practically and morally responsible” for unleashing the violence, insisting that “the people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their president.”
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