Mark Meadows's deranged Jan. 6 musings on Fox unmask the GOP's corrupt core

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Greg Sargent
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Amazing moment on Fox News: Mark Meadows demonstrates that the comprehensive whitewashing of Trump's effort to destroy US democracy has become a guiding ideal for the GOP. Let's not let it be forgotten that Meadows himself is a co-conspirator. My latest:

Opinion | Mark Meadows’s deranged Jan. 6 musings on Fox unmask the GOP’s corrupt core
How the fate of democracy has itself become a partisan issue.
washingtonpost.com
8:17 AM · Oct 12, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/12/meadows-ingraham-jan-6-committee/

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By now, it should be clear to even the most determined both-sidesing observer that the fate of democracy has itself become a starkly partisan issue. For Democrats, anti-majoritarian abuses and the future subversion of legitimate electoral outcomes are seen as urgent, foundational threats. For Republicans, they are broadly speaking becoming intrinsic to the party’s overall political project.

Unexpectedly, it has fallen to Mark Meadows, of all people, to confirm this with great clarity. The former White House chief of staff’s Monday night appearance on Fox News stands as another signpost on the GOP’s path into authoritarianism.

Meadows has been subpoenaed by the House select committee examining the Jan. 6 insurrection incited by his former boss, Donald Trump. He has not said whether he will show up for his scheduled appearance this week.

But Meadows knows Fox is always available as a safe space to pre-spin a highly propagandized story about Jan. 6 and Trump’s role in it, and so obviously Fox is preferable as a venue.

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