Stunning Trump revelations raise fears of a dark, violent future [View all]

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EJ Dionne
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“What does it mean that for most elected Republicans, none of what we’re learning” from the extraordinary 1/6 revelations “is remotely disqualifying, either in a party leader or a 2024 presidential nominee?” @ThePlumLineGS asks.
The answer isn’t good.

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Opinion | Stunning Trump revelations raise fears of a dark, violent future
Why the GOP reaction to the Jan. 6 hearings may put us at a dangerous crossroads.
11:17 AM · Jun 17, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/17/trump-revelations-jan-6-hearings-violent-future/

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As extraordinary revelations pour forth about Donald Trump’s plot to destroy our political order after the 2020 election, an unsettling question arises: What does it mean that for most elected Republicans, none of what we’re learning is remotely disqualifying, either in a party leader or a 2024 presidential nominee?

At the close of Thursday’s Jan. 6 select committee hearing, J. Michael Luttig, a former federal judge widely respected by conservatives, issued a long-term warning. Trump and his allies pose a “clear and present danger to American democracy,” Luttig said, who pledge to “succeed in 2024 where they failed in 2020.”

“The former president and his allies,” Luttig continued, “are executing that blueprint for 2024 in open and plain view of the American public.”

This might seem like a narrow procedural prediction: If 2024 is super-close, they’ll attempt the same manipulation of our creaky electoral college machinery as last time. They might succeed. They’re putting those pieces in place right now.

That’s all true. But Luttig’s testimony, along with the shocking new revelations, point to something more fundamental at stake. These hearings are about what kind of long-term democratic future lies ahead: They represent an effort to minimize the possibility that we’re sliding headlong into a protracted era of chronic instability and rising political violence.

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