As the GOP renounces democratic governance, the rationale to keep the filibuster is evaporating
We already know Donald Trump tried to steal the election. We have a tape of his call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger pleading to “find” more votes. We have notes from then-acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue documenting Trump’s attempt to have the Justice Department declare the election “corrupt" and then “leave the rest to me” and congressional allies. And we have Trump’s own words over weeks, culminating in his call for protesters to march on the Capitol ahead of the Jan. 6 insurrection. Trump continues to insist he won and recently demanded Raffensperger “decertify” the election.
Even still, it is downright chilling to see the detailed memo from conservative lawyer and Federalist Society bigwig John Eastman, who spoke at the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally, laying out a step-by-step process for throwing the election into turmoil so Trump could be installed.
It is chilling because it underscores that so many lawyers are eager to upend the Constitution and betray our democracy with a half-baked scheme involving then-Vice President Mike Pence violating his oath. It is chilling because Pence might have tried it — if not for the advice of former vice president Dan Quayle. But mostly it is chilling because Republicans remain lodged in the MAGA cult. They refuse to confront the implications of a domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol and would eagerly support the former president’s candidacy once more.
No one can seriously pass this off as the impulsive actions of one unhinged egomaniac. This was a detailed, wide-ranging and multi-level plan to stage a coup — one that all but two House Republicans refuse to investigate. Moreover, Republicans’ willingness to overthrow democracy continues to this day, both in their state laws to suppress voting and subvert elections and in their violent rhetoric.
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