There are a lot of American evangelicals who get their American history from Eric Metaxas. In a recent segment of his radio show, Metaxas said that there were no violent protesters at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Watch: […]
January 6th
This is what authoritarian regimes do
In case you haven’t heard, the Trump White House has removed a searchable database of January 6, 2021 cases from the Department of Justice website. Here is Alec MacGillis at Pro Publica: The removal of the database happened…quietly, but it is worthy […]
When a member of the clergy calls for mercy for undocumented immigrants it is “radical ideology.” When Trump pardons violent criminals who beat police officers it is “redemption.”
Mike Johnson believes in “redemption.” Here is how he responded to Trump’s pardons and commutations of January 6th insurrectionists: Here’s the money quote: “It’s kind of my ethos, my world view, we believe in redemption, we believe in second chances….” […]
What does Reinhold Niebuhr’s “spiritual discipline against resentment” look like on the fourth anniversary of January 6th?
This is a question I want to start thinking about. Today I feel full of resentment and unhealthy anger. As the Senate certified the 2024 election results, confirming Donald Trump’s electoral college victory, I could not get over the fact […]
The “cultural and political rot” that led to the January 6, 2021 insurrection
Here is a taste of Charlie Warzel and Mike Caulfield’s piece, “The Internet Is Worse Than a Brainwashing Machine“: Conspiracy theorizing is a deeply ingrained human phenomenon, and January 6 is just one of many crucial moments in American history […]
“Once he takes office, Mr. Trump will be positioned to finish refashioning Jan. 6 as a modern Lost Cause of the Confederacy.”
Tyrants rewrite history. They do so to strengthen their claim to political power. The insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 was based on the lie that the 2020 election was stolen. Trump’s telling of what happened on […]
John Eastman, the architect of Trump’s “fake electors” scheme, is disbarred by the state of California
Slowly but surely, the people involved in overturning the results of the 2020 election are facing consequences for the roles they played in undermining democracy. Eastman is the latest. Who is Eastman? Watch: Here is Alex Griffing at Mediaite: John […]
“Trump should be thrown off the ballot.” Historians convince E.J. Dionne
When the Colorado–14th Amendment ballot case broke, Washington Post columnist and public intellectual E.J. Dionne was skeptical. He was among those who thought that Trump should stay on the ballot in Colorado and let the people decide whether he should […]
January 6, 2021: The Shakespeare angle
Today at The Washington Post, Meena Venkataramanan has a piece on a letter the January 6th “Stop the Steal” protesters sent to the Folger Shakespeare Library. This is wild. Here is a taste: While insurrectionists were plotting to storm the […]
Nancy Mace: Trump must be “held accountable” for January 6, 2021. Oh, and by the way, I endorse him.
When South Carolina congresswoman Nancy Mace is not talking about her sex life at a prayer breakfast, she is endorsing Donald Trump. Here is Mace shortly after January 6, 2021: Here is ABC News: Donald Trump has picked up another […]
Does history really help us decide if Trump should stay on the ballot in Colorado?
Over at his blog, historian William Hogeland reminds us that history can only take us so far in debates like the one currently raging over whether Donald Trump can stay on the ballot in Colorado. The original intent of Section […]
The old court evangelicals were mostly silent on the third anniversary of January 6th
Saturday was the third anniversary of the January 6th insurrection on the U.S. Capitol. We continue to deal with the fallout of this dark moment in American history. Next month the Supreme Court may decide if Trump was an insurrectionist […]
The Supreme Court will take up the Colorado-Trump ballot case
Here is CBS News: The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review a politically explosive decision from Colorado’s top court that found former President Donald Trump ineligible for the presidency and would leave him off the state’s primary ballot, stepping into a […]
Mike Pence’s son talked his father into showing-up on January 6, 2021 to certify the election
ABC News is reporting that Mike Pence was thinking about skipping the January 6, 2021 certification of the 2020 presidential election until his son, a Marine, convinced him otherwise during a Christmas 2020 family vacation in Colorado. All of this […]
Election denier Sidney Powell just flipped
This is huge. Sidney Powell was “in the room where it happened.” She is now working for the prosecution in the Georgia election fraud case against Donald Trump and others. Here is CNN: Former Donald Trump attorney Sidney Powell has pleaded guilty […]
Federalist Society and Trump-appointed judge puts Proud Boys chairman away for 22 years.
In case you missed it, District Judge Timothy Kelly just gave former Proud Boys Chairman Enrique Tarrio twenty-two years in prison for his leadership of a failed attempt to prevent Joe Biden from becoming President of the United States. Right-wing […]
Eric Metaxas and John Zmirak on why Mike Pence is not a good Christian
As you might imagine, the reason the former Vice President is not a good Christian is because he chose to certify the 2020 presidential election on January 6, 2021. Watch these guys:
Trump indictment #3 is coming soon. How are people (including a few evangelicals) responding?
This time the indictment is for January 6th. (Still waiting on Georgia). CNN has some good coverage. The indictment is probably coming, perhaps in days. It looks like Trump is going to spend most of 2024 in court. Here is […]
Mike Pence responds to an election denier at an Iowa Pizza Ranch
Mike Pence ran into an election denier at a Sioux City, Iowa Pizza Ranch. (As a north Jersey kid who is half Italian I can’t get my head around the idea of a “Pizza Ranch”–but I digress). She told Pence […]
GOP Senators criticize Trump’s use of the J6 Choir at his Waco rally
If you don’t know about the J6 choir, get up to speed here. John Cornyn (TX), Lindsey Graham (SC), John Thune (SD), and Thom Tillis (NC) have weighed-in. Here is Sahil Kapur and Scott Wong at NBC News: Top Senate […]