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Insurrection-Jan 6

Nancy Pelosi picks Liz Cheney for House committee investigating Jan. 6

John Fea   |  July 1, 2021

Cheney lost her leadership position in the GOP caucus when she refused to go along with the Big Lie. She is the only Republican member of the committee. Here is AXIOS: In a closed-door meeting with freshmen Republicans Wednesday, McCarthy...

Pence says he was “proud” to certify the election

John Fea   |  June 25, 2021

Annie Karni and Maggie Haberman on the latest from Penceville: Former Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday night made his most forceful attempt yet to separate himself from his former boss, Donald J. Trump, on the issue of certifying the...

Some January 6 insurrectionists are finally getting around to studying American history

John Fea   |  June 21, 2021

Defense attorney H. Heather Shaner is giving books and movies on the Holocaust, lynching, slavery, and the Tulsa Race Massacre to defendants arrested in connection with the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Here is Ryan J. Rielly...

Why doesn’t the GOP just say it: “We support the January 6 insurrectionists!”

John Fea   |  June 17, 2021

Matt Ford of The New Republic is waiting for it to happen: Instead of the free and open denunciation of the Capitol riot, a growing number of Republican officials are softening their position from “It was Bad” to, at worst,...

The ad you won’t see on Fox News

John Fea   |  June 8, 2021

Watch: Obama has some thoughts as well:...

Pence says he and Trump “do not see eye to eye” on the January 6, 2021 insurrection

John Fea   |  June 4, 2021

This is the first time the former vice president has suggested that he has a different view of January 6 than his old boss. But of course this claim was also couched in pro-Trump administration rhetoric. Here is Myah Ward...

Only six Republican senators voted for a commission to study the worst attack on the U.S. Capitol since the War of 1812

John Fea   |  May 29, 2021

It looks like American historians will need to do the work. John Hope Franklin once called historians “the conscience of the nation.” A Senate vote on a bill to create an independent commission to study the January 6, 2021 insurrection...

When it comes to the Second Amendment, Matt Gaetz has no clue

John Fea   |  May 28, 2021

Watch the Florida congressman in action at a recent rally: Actually… no. Here is Saul Cornell, our best historian of the Second Amendment, writing in 2012: The founders had a word for a bunch of farmers marching with guns without...

McConnell asks fellow GOP senators to vote against January 6 commission as a “personal favor”

John Fea   |  May 27, 2021

Remember when Mitch McConnell condemned the January 6, 2021 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol and said Trump was to blame? Yeah, those where the good old days. Here is Jamie Gangel at CNN: The Washington Post reports on the testimony...

Are we in the midst of a third American revolution?

John Fea   |  May 18, 2021

CNN legal scholar Carrie Cordero and historian Ed Larson at USA Today: We are all familiar with the first American Revolution: an actual war, a rebellion for self-governance. But it was not long after that Thomas Jefferson called the election of 1800...

“A normal tourist visit”

John Fea   |  May 12, 2021

Andrew Clyde represents Georgia’s 9th congressional district. He holds the seat previously held by Doug Collins. Watch Clyde at today’s congressional hearing on the January 6, 2021 insurrection: Is THIS a normal tourist visit?: Remember this:...

Josh Hawley’s path to the insurrection

John Fea   |  May 12, 2021

Josh Hawley, the Missouri senator who once had the support of liberal Republican John Danforth, is now the poster-boy for the far-right Republican Party. In this longform piece at The Washington Post, Michael Kranish chronicles how Hawley ascended to such...

Liz Cheney: “Remaining silent and ignoring the lie emboldens the liar”

John Fea   |  May 11, 2021

Her party empowers liars and removes truth-tellers from leadership positions. Here is Liz Cheney’s parting shot: The sound you hear are progressives cheering for one of the most conservative members of the House of Representatives:...

Kevin McCarthy is “proud to be a Christian.” He’ll now need to find a way to reconcile his faith with his willingness to lead a party united around a lie

John Fea   |  May 10, 2021

The vote to remove Liz Cheney from her leadership position has not taken place yet and the House’s top two Republicans–Andrew McCarthy and Stave Scalise–have already thrown their support behind New York congresswoman Elise Stefanik to replace her. Here is...

Noonan: “Liz Cheney Confronts a House of Cowards”

John Fea   |  May 7, 2021

The Wall Street Journal columnist and former Reagan speechwriter pulls few punches in today’s column: It all comes back to the Capitol insurrection. It’s at the heart of the battle that is, four months later, tearing the House GOP apart....

Chait: “The next insurrection will be a Brooks Brothers riot”

John Fea   |  May 7, 2021

Over at New York Magazine, Jonathan Chait responds to this piece by Dan McLaughlin at The National Review. Chait does not see much difference between the Liz Cheney wing of the GOP and the Donald Trump wing of the GOP....

Cheney: “The GOP is at a turning point”

John Fea   |  May 6, 2021

Here is Liz Cheney’s op-ed from las night’s Washington Post: In public statements again this week, former president Donald Trump has repeated his claims that the 2020 election was a fraud and was stolen. His message: I am still the rightful president,...

Eric Metaxas responds to Joe Biden’s claim that the January 6 insurrection was the “worst attack on democracy since the Civil War”

John Fea   |  April 29, 2021

Was Biden right? It’s hard to say. Historians will have different opinions about where the January 6, 2021 insurrection fits on the “attacks on democracy” scale. For example, one might find Jim Crow, Pearl Harbor, or September 11th somewhere on...

U.S. Air Force Academy graduate: “Enough about ‘not picking sides.’ The only right position is against white supremacy and extremism.”

John Fea   |  April 26, 2021

Esteban Castellanos is a 2003 graduate of the Air Force Academy. and a member of the Air Force Reserve. Here is a taste of his op-ed at Air Force Times: In late March, the U.S. Air Force Academy held its...

Michelle Cottle offers a “dictionary for these polarized times”

John Fea   |  April 10, 2021

The premise of Cottle’s piece at The New York Times is that Democrats and Republicans no longer speak the same language. Take, for example, the phrase “fake news”: Pre-Trump, most folks thought of fake news as media sources that trafficked...

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