The Rs calling for unity are like people telling an abused spouse

[spooky3]

She or he should not report an assault to the police, and go home and try to make his/her spouse happy.

[SheltieLover]

1. Absofuckingloutely!

[Biophilic]

2. Yes, and we all know where that so called solution leads. nt

[onecaliberal]

3. Trump needs to be removed. His supporters need to be jailed.

The congress people who support this need to be expelled. ALL law enforcement needs to be scrubbed of fascist.

[Hugin]

4. Bingo.

This is the box of chocolates for kicking us down the stairs.

A vicious cycle abusers resort to in order to maintain their victim.

[njhoneybadger]

5. Couldn't be a better analogy

[dflprincess]

6. And we've seen it before

After Watergate, after Iran Contra, after being lied into two wars.

Each time the abuse got worse. If we don't stop it now, the next time it will kill us.

[pandr32]

7. Exactly!

[EarlG]

8. 100%

"They beat you up? Well don't report it, that will just make things worse. Instead, make them a nice dinner and pretend it never happened. You want to heal, don't you? Oh, and maybe think about what it was that you did to make them so upset in the first place. "

[Hermit-The-Prog]

10. Yep. Expect more interviews with poor MAGAts in diners.

[femmedem]

9. Swalwell's response today was that we are united--against the people responsible.

No link, sorry--he was a guest on one of the morning shows.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

11. Yes - exactly. It's the old "can't you take a joke"; "what did you do wrong to cause the upset";

"just try harder"; "just be sweet" (Warren Jeff's LDS); etc. etc.

My son just told me this is an example of DARVO

From Wikipedia:

DARVO is an acronym for "deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender", a common manipulation strategy of psychological abusers.

The abuser denies the abuse ever took place, attacks the victim for attempting to hold the abuser accountable, and claims that they, the abuser, are actually the victim in the situation, thus reversing the reality of the victim and offender. This usually involves not just "playing the victim" but also victim blaming.

The acronym and the analysis it is based on are the work of the psychologist Jennifer Freyd, whose webpage links to an article explaining that the first stage of DARVO, denial, involves gaslighting.

Jennifer Freyd writes:

...I have observed that actual abusers threaten, bully and make a nightmare for anyone who holds them accountable or asks them to change their abusive behavior. This attack, intended to chill and terrify, typically includes threats of law suits, overt and covert attacks on the whistle-blower's credibility, and so on. The attack will often take the form of focusing on ridiculing the person who attempts to hold the offender accountable. [...] [T]he offender rapidly creates the impression that the abuser is the wronged one, while the victim or concerned observer is the offender. Figure and ground are completely reversed. [...] The offender is on the offense and the person attempting to hold the offender accountable is put on the defense.

[Tarc]

12. They're like a cabin boy asking the Captain of the Titanic, at 2:19am, "coffee sir?"