Almost all the 1500+ rioters have been pardoned by President Trump. What should we make of this?
January 6
What is going on with the Alitos?
First, the Alito family flew an upside-down American flag at their Alexandria, Virginia home. Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito said his wife Martha-Ann hung the flag in the context of an argument with a neighbor who had a vulgar anti-Trump […]
Colorado Supreme Court: Donald Trump is an insurrectionist and must be removed from the 2024 ballot
Early today we linked to a piece asking “when, if ever, can a democracy exclude anti-democratic politicians and parties from democratic elections?” Read it here. Well, it appears that the Colorado Supreme Court has its own ideas on the matter. […]
Mike Pence suspends his presidential campaign
Here is CNN: Former Vice President Mike Pence has suspended his campaign for president amid lagging poll numbers and financial challenges, vowing to help elect “principled Republican leaders” moving forward. “After much prayer and deliberation, I have decided to suspend my campaign […]
Stanley Hauerwas on the Christian church: “My sense is that God is making us leaner.”
Longtime readers of this blog will know that I am a big fan of John Inazu’s work, especially his book Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference. Until I read this interview at Inazu’s Substack, I did not realize […]
Tucker and Kevin rewrite the history of January 6th
In order to justify his invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin had to rewrite history. So did Josef Stalin. On Monday night, Tucker Carlson tried to rewrite the history of January 6, 2021. He got help from Speaker of the House […]
Mike Pence: “The president’s words were reckless. It’s clear he decided to be part of the problem”
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The January 6 committee is back this week and Zoe Lofgren says they will reveal some “pretty surprising” new information
Here is CNBC: The House Jan. 6 select committee’s next public hearing will reveal new material about former President Donald Trump’s plans and how much he knew about the Capitol riot, one of the panel’s members said Tuesday. The committee’s ninth […]
The U.S. Justice Department is investigating Donald Trump
The Washington Post broke the story tonight: The Justice Department is investigating President Donald Trump’s actions as part of its criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, according to four people familiar with the matter. Prosecutors who […]
The Wall Street Journal on Trump’s dereliction of duty on January 6th
Straight from the editorial page of the conservative-leaning newspaper which also happens to be the newspaper with the largest circulation in the United States: No matter your views of the Jan. 6 special committee, the facts it is laying out […]
The Kansas City Star on Josh Hawley’s manliness
The Missouri Senator’s hometown newspaper pulled no punches after seeing Hawley’s run through the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021: Josh Hawley is a laughingstock. During Thursday night’s televised hearings of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, coup […]
The Claremont Institute in the wake of January 6th
The conservative pro-Trump think tank has a John Eastman problem. Here is Marc Fisher and Isaac Stanley-Becker at The Washington Post: Early in 2016, as Donald Trump’s march toward the Republican presidential nomination gathered the air of inevitability, alumni of […]
What did we learn last night about Trump and January 6, 2021?
Last night the January 6th Committee provided more evidence to prove that Donald Trump is by far the most corrupt, depraved, and immoral president in the United States history. Here is what we learned last night: Donald Trump ignored all […]
Harvard study: Trump motivated January 6th insurrectionists
It looks like the House Select Committee now has a Harvard study to bolster its argument. Here is NBC News: Researchers at Harvard University who conducted the largest study yet of what motivated Jan. 6 rioters say the data is […]
A brief history of “Stop the Steal”
Over at The New York Times Magazine, Charles Homans offers a long-form essay on how the Big Lie has captured the Republican Party. Much of the piece focuses on Pennsylvania and its current GOP gubernatorial candidate, Doug Mastriano. Here is […]
The mob at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th was following Trump’s orders
For those of you who are not paying attention to the historic January 6th hearings, here is what happened yesterday in the words of Amanda Carpenter, writer for the conservative-leaning The Bulwark: Donald Trump’s defenders can finally drop the idea […]
Fox Corporation board member Paul Ryan was “sobbing” as he watched the January 6th insurrection
This morning I am trying to reconcile two parts of a CNN story on Paul Ryan and the January 6, 2021 insurrection. First there is this: Former House Speaker Paul Ryan was “sobbing” as he watched the January 6, 2021, attack […]
The Washington Post calls for a criminal investigation into Trump’s role on January 6th
Here is the July 2 editorial: After another week of riveting testimony before the House Jan. 6 committee, it is natural to wonder: How many laws were broken, by whom, and will there be prosecutions? Some argue that former president Donald Trump […]
Commentary editor: “Trump is in deep, deep, deep, deep trouble”
That’s four “deeps” from John Podhoretz, the editor of the conservative Commentary magazine. Here is a taste of his piece: The testimony this afternoon of Cassidy Hutchinson, the aide to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, cannot be dismissed. If […]
The GOP is trying to defend the most corrupt president in United States history
Historians will have the last say, but in the meantime here is a taste of Jonathan Chait’s recent piece at New York Magazine: At this point, even with the hearings in progress, it seems safe to rate this as the […]