Heather Cox Richardson today:

[applegrove]

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-30-2022

"SNIP......

“t’s both alarming and yet utterly predictable that Trump would toss the gasoline of racial allegations onto his flaming pile of grievances, knowing how that will play with the Confederate flag aficionados within the ex-president’s cult,” Bunch wrote. Trump, he said, “is seeking to start a race war.”

But, as a sign of just how tied the Republican Party is to the former president now, on ABC News’s This Week, today, Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) refused to rule out supporting Trump in 2024 despite last night’s incendiary speech. 

Collins’s reluctance to offend the former president didn’t do her much good: tonight, in an astounding statement, he referred to her as “Wacky Susan Collins.”

The statement was astounding not because he was insulting a Republican senator. 

Referring to bipartisan congressional discussions about clarifying the law to guarantee that no one ever again will argue that the vice president can overturn the results of an election (this is where Collins came up), Trump claimed those discussions themselves proved the plan his team came up with was, in fact, legal. (It is not.) He went on to say: “Mike Pence did have the right to change the outcome and they now want to take that right away. Unfortunately, he didn’t exercise that power, he could have overturned the Election!” 

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[dchill]

1. He's STILL trying to get Pence killed. Seriously.

[ShazzieB]

2. He sure is.

I have no use for Mike Pence, personally, but i really don't want to see him get murdered for refusing to break the law for that jackass Trump's benefit. I hope he has 24/7 security.

[Skittles]

4. Pence enabled Trump to become the monster he is

I don't want anything to happen to him either but, well, fuck him anyways

[Delphinus]

6. You

captured my feelings pretty much to a t.

[Skittles]

7. howdy, fellow Dem in a red state

yes INDEED

[KS Toronado]

3. The right cannot let go of the "BIG LIE"

And all the little lies that go with it. His race war will be a civil war......good honest patriots vs magaloons.

[calimary]

5. Susan Colllins is a disgrace.

Who the hell sees ANY reason to keep sending her to the Senate?

I don’t get it.