The Trump Watch on Trump and His Enablers, Quoted Either in the January 22, or February 15-22 Issues of TIME Magazine, or Quoted Separately
#From Trump's Jan. 6 speech: "If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country any more."
#"Trump's congressional enablers are complicit in the deadly violence," said 'The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 'Senators Josh Howley, Ted Cruz, and other 'two-faced lying populist politicians' failed repeatedly to 'stand-up' and condemn Trump's dangerous rhetoric. Now they deserve to be cast into political purgatory."
#These same Republicans are suddenly calling for 'unity' and 'healing,' said 'The Washington Post.' "There is a minimum price for reconciliation: Issue an 'unequivocal acknowledgment' that there was no vote rigging, and that Joe Biden won 'fair and square.' "
#Paul Waldman wrote in 'The Washington Post': "Their rage will only increase. We may be facing an era in which 'right-wing domestic terrorism' is a regular feature in our politics."
#"The blame game runs far deeper that Trump," says Zach Beauchamp in 'Vox.com.' "The Capitol Hill mob was the logical culmination of years of mainstream Republican politics. For years, the GOP has vilified Democrats as extremists who represent 'an extensional threat' to Americans, and whose election victories are inherently fraudulent."
#Theunis Bates, the managing editor of 'Elite's Letter,' wrote: "Yet the people who stormed Congress weren't some alien other, but everyday Americans who -- fed a diet of conspiracy theories -- believed they were doing the patriotic thing."
#Kali Holloway, "The Failed Coup," The Nation, December 14-21, 2020. - "Bill Barr poked his partisan nose where no other outgoing attorney general had during an election, with a memo urging federal lawyers to look into Trump's groundless accusations." "Trump is still tweeting that mail-in voting is a 'sick joke,' and falsely insisting "I WON THE ELECTION!"
"From the sidelines, he is cheering on street violence by MAGA thugs and branding political opponents as unAmerican." "After this year's presidential contest, 70 percent of Republican voters surveyed said it was not 'free and fair,' up from 35 percent before the election." "Now, Republicans are casting Black and Brown citizens as illegitimate voters to invalidate the Biden presidency." "Trump will keep denigrating democracy to elevate himself. Yet again, this president's selfish gains will be America's losses."
#Luke Mogelson, "The Storm," The New Yorker, January 25, 2021. - "It was a peculiar mixture of emotion that had become familiar at pro-Trump rallies since he lost the election: half mutinous rage, half excitement at being licensed to act on it. The profanity signaled a final jettisoning of whatever residual deference to political norms that had survived the past four years."
"In the days before January 6th, calls for a 'real solution' became progressively louder. Trump, by both amplifying these voices and consolidating his control over the Republican Party, conferred extraordinary influence on the most deranged and hateful elements of the American right."
"Throughout the latter half of 2020, Trump had sought to dismiss the popular uprisings that Floyd's death had precipitated by ascribing them to antifa, which he vilified as a terrorist organization -- [yet, antifa is a relatively unorganized grouping of like-minded individuals.]"
"The Proud Boys had seized on Trump's conflation to recast their small-scale rivalry with anti-fascists in leftish strongholds like Berkeley and Portland as the front lines of a national culture war."
"Overnight, 'Stop the Steal!' gained more than three hundred and twenty thousand followers -- making it the fastest-growing group in Facebook history. The company quickly deleted it." "Even if it were possible to prove that the election was not stolen, it seems doubtful whether conservatives who already feel under attack could be convinced."
"Many COVID-19 skeptics believe that lockdowns, mask mandates, vaccines, and contact tracing are laying the groundwork for the New World Order --" "While the religiously charged demonization of globalists dovetails with QAnon, religious maximization has also gone mainstream."
Senators Graham, Cruz, and Lee met with Trump lawyer, David Shoen, to go over the 'procedures' for Friday's meeting. Social media writers have raised conflict of interest charges. A public defender said she couldn't even use the bathroom with a juror.
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