The RNC Joins the Insurrection

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Charlie Sykes
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How many times will they censure the dissenters; how many excommunications will be issued, anathemata hurled, or wrists limply slapped?

So nothing was accomplished and nothing changed. Except… it all turns out to be worse than you thought.

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The RNC Joins the Insurrection
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7:53 AM · Feb 4, 2022

https://morningshots.thebulwark.com/p/the-rnc-joins-the-insurrection

Later today, as expected, the Republican National Committee will vote to censure Representatives Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney for their role in seeking the truth about the attack on Capitol.

The timing of the resolution is notable — coming just days after Donald Trump dangled pardons for the insurrectionists who tried to help him overturn the election, and just days after he threatened mass unrest if prosecutors try to hold him accountable. It comes the week we learned of Trump’s push to have the government seize voting machines, and got more details about his plan to use faked and forged electoral vote certificates to force Mike Pence to overturn the election.

And it comes as Trump continues to ratchet up his lies about his electoral defeat.

But at the RNC meeting there was, of course, no discussion of censuring the former president for any of this.

That never came up. Nobody even thought of it.

Nor was there even the slightest suggestion that perhaps the party should distance itself from the bizarre bigoted rantings of MTG, or Paul Gosar, or Lauren Boebert, or Madison Cawthorn.

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