Media Commentary on Trump and His Enablers in Early 2021

 The Trump Watch: Media commentary 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 January 6 speech: "If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country       anymore."

# "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 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.com.' "There is a minimum price of entry 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. com': "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 than Trump," says Zack Beauchamp in 'Vox.com.' "The Capitol Hill mob was the 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 outgoing attorney general had during an election, with a memo urging federal lawyers to look into Trump's groundless accusations of vote tabulation irregularities." 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 loss."

# 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 gleefulls (?) of excitement' at being licensed to act on it. The profanity signaled a final jettisoning of whatever residual deference to political norms had survived the past four years."