"Legitimate political discourse?"

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(02-08-2022, 04:30 PM)Dill Wrote: The crux of the problem is that we are not a "we" anymore. 

That's why it is a matter of party, when one party can (without evidence beyond Trump/Giuliani/Powell claims) convince 50 million voters that that Biden stole the election, and the other can (with hard, court-admissible evidence) prove that Trump tried to steal it.  One party is now under control of a leader, disgraced and voted out office, who still determines party priorities and who can represent it. 

I agree with you about the wimpyness of Democrats. A few fight the rolling coup now underway, but too many still think the system will somehow just preserve itself, without decisive voter input. 

Could be that he is preparing something behind the scenes and just waiting for the appropriate moment, but right now it looks like Garland and his DOJ are keeping their distance from 6/1 committee findings. They may be happy to prosecute individual rioters, but so far seem paralyzed before the prospect of dealing with those who engineered the coup attempt, which went much further than the hundreds actually engaged in the break in. 

We are in a crisis of accountability, with a limited time window for fixing that before the perps are back in power--those who will define the break in and coup as "legitimate political discourse." Nothing to prosecute there.

I remember when some people thought Trump wouldn't be the driving force of the GOP after losing. That didn't age well.