19,000 since January 6, 2021. Here is The Philadelphia Inquirer: In the aftermath of false election fraud claims, 19,000 Pennsylvanians became former Republicans. Our analysis of voter registration data showed that a dramatic two-thirds of the voters who have switched...
2021 Insurrection (on Congress)
Nearly half of Republicans would leave the GOP for a Trump party
The USA Today-Suffolk University poll also found that 58% of Republicans believe that Antifa was behind the January 6, 2021 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol. 73% of Republicans believe that Joe Biden was not legitimately elected. Learn more here....
Blight: “Congressman McCarthy, cherish your portrait of Douglass, but leave his history alone”
Kevin McCarthy made a Black History Month video. It featured African American leader Frederick Douglass. Watch: Yale historian David Blight, the author of the definitive biography of Douglass, Prophet of Freedom, commented on McCarthy’s videos at the Los Angeles Times....
When devout evangelicals reject the advice of their pastors and decide to storm the U.S. Capitol
Peter Manseau, the curator of American religious history at the Smithsonian, tells the story of Michael Sparks, an evangelical Christian who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Here is a taste of his piece at The Washington Post:...
Where is Mike Pence?
Amanda Carpenter of The Bulwark is looking for him: Makeshift gallows were erected on the West side of the complex. Members of the mob shouted “Hang Mike Pence!” as they stormed the halls of Congress, hunting for the vice president, as well...
How is Pennsylvania senator Pat Toomey faring after voting to convict Trump?
Many of my fellow Pennsylvanians are not happy with Pat Toomey. Here is The Philadelphia Inquirer: Republican state party chairman Lawrence Tabas has advised committee members that he will soon call a meeting to “address and consider actions related to...
What is Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson thinking?
Yesterday, in commenting on the January 6, 2021 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol, Johnson said, “This didn’t seem like an armed insurrection to me.” Here is the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Two days after members of the U.S. Senate acquitted former...
Mitt Romney: Deep state agent?
Some members of the Utah GOP want g to censure Mitt Romney, the 2012 presidential nominee of the Republican Party. A lot can happen in a decade. Here is a draft of the censure that is circulated online (boldface is...
Mitch McConnell clarifies his vote to acquit Trump in a *Wall Street Journal* op-ed.
Mitch McConnell is a weasel. He is also a very crafty politician. In his mind, moral conviction always takes a back seat to his quest for political power. This was on display Saturday when he voted to acquit Donald Trump...
American families are boycotting Publix
Boycotts are as old as the republic. As historian T.H. Breen taught us in his book The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence (and several other seminal articles on the 18th-century British consumer revolution), shopping, or the...
The Liberty University Falkirk Center continues to promote evangelical Trumpism:
Yesterday I noted that Calvary Chapel-Chino Hills has emerged as a prominent site for Trump’s evangelical lost cause movement. Today I highlight (once again) the “think tank” associated with this movement: Liberty University’s Falkirk Center. It continues to baffle me...
Why did the GOP Senators voted to acquit Trump? Here is a cheat sheet:
Over the weekend we posted the statements of most of the U.S. senators (all Republicans) who voted to acquit Donald Trump on Saturday. You can read that post here. It is a long post, so we created a cheat sheet:...
The *Kansas City Star* publishes a scathing editorial on Sen. Josh Hawley’s vote to acquit Trump
Here is the stinger: Hawley’s mind is permanently closed, open only in the service of his ambition. He will say or do anything to further his prospects, whether it’s the White House or a bottle of wine from the top shelf. The...
What happened when GOP congresswoman Jamie Herrera Beutler wished her constituents a “Happy Valentine’s Day”?
Yesterday we did a post on Jamie Herrera Beutler, the Washington congresswoman who was prepared to testify that House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy told her that Trump supported the insurrection of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Herrera did...
Eric Metaxas remains defiant in his interview with *The Atlantic*
Anyone who reads this blog will not be surprised by anything Metaxas says in his interview with Emma Green of The Atlantic. You can read it here. Metaxas’s public relations people offered The Atlantic an interview and Green bit. I...
Let’s check out what the 43 Republicans who voted to acquit Trump are saying tonight:
Marsha Blackburn (TN): Roy Blunt (MO): “I said before this trial started that I believe the constitutional purpose for presidential impeachment is to remove a president from office, not to punish a person after they have left office. None of...
Milbank: “Trump left them to die. 43 Senate Republicans still licked his boots”
Dana Milbank of The Washington Post gives it to us straight: Trump’s lawyers, in their slashing, largely fictitious defense, claimed that Trump was “horrified” by the violence, hadn’t known that Vice President Mike Pence was in danger and took “immediate steps” to...
Joe Biden on today’s impeachment vote:
From the White House: It was nearly two weeks ago that Jill and I paid our respects to Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who laid in honor in the Rotunda after losing his life protecting the Capitol from a riotous,...
Will Trump be back?
Today the Senate acquitted him in his impeachment trial. The former president responded with this statement: I want to first thank my team of dedicated lawyers and others for their tireless work upholding justice and defending truth. My deepest thanks...
Trump evangelicals respond to his impeachment acquittal
If Mitch McConnell is right, the Democratic House managers proved that Donald Trump committed high crimes and misdemeanors. The former president survived his impeachment trial because forty-three senators, all Republicans, voted to acquit. Several of these senators, including Ted Cruz,...