Jimmy Higgins
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Last year, on January 6th, a bunch of people gathered in Washington DC to see the sitting US President discuss the need for Vice President Pence to step in and hand Trump the election. The people that were at the event, marched toward the Capitol Building and then proceeded to invade the building while Congress was supposed to be completing the election process. During in the invasion, Trump would tweet that Pence failed him, almost seemingly giving his rioters a green light for justifying some inconceivable attack.
The sitting President's case for all of this was about "fraud". And his supporters that day, a lot of middle to upper class white men, took it to heart that Trump did have the election stolen from him. But the reality was that nothing was stolen and President Biden won a close election (state to state) and clear Electoral Vote majority. That didn't matter, because lying became normalized. So much so, the vast majority of sitting GOP members in the US House of Representatives voted against certifying some electoral votes. And this is quite awful especially when you consider the most damning truth of the 2020 Election, President Trump took virtually none of his or his attorney's (Giuliani) widespread claims of fraud to court. They held press conferences, a literally fake Legislative hearing/investigation, informercials, but almost nothing went to court. All of the affidavits tossed about in interviews or fake testimony, almost all of it disregarded by the actual lawyers that, in a few rare cases, went to court.
And for the obvious reason, it was all a lie, and it is a lot easier to lie to the public than it is to demonstrate lies, especially when they are bald faced lies, in a court room. So you had the GOP seats in the House of Representatives, voting in majority to support lies that were never tested in court. Why? Because lying has became normalized in the Trump Administration. The lies from Trump became enough to simply use that to support the GOP's outrageous anti-democracy actions in the House, and in a more limited sense, in the Senate.
And the former President continues to lie, Republicans are growing increasingly in support of the people that invaded the US Capitol Building, chanting to death to their sitting VIce President... and forcing Congress to evacuate, and that it is actually the Democrats who are causing the problems here. The right-wing lying has become so normalized we are stepping beyond George Orwell novels.
The sitting President's case for all of this was about "fraud". And his supporters that day, a lot of middle to upper class white men, took it to heart that Trump did have the election stolen from him. But the reality was that nothing was stolen and President Biden won a close election (state to state) and clear Electoral Vote majority. That didn't matter, because lying became normalized. So much so, the vast majority of sitting GOP members in the US House of Representatives voted against certifying some electoral votes. And this is quite awful especially when you consider the most damning truth of the 2020 Election, President Trump took virtually none of his or his attorney's (Giuliani) widespread claims of fraud to court. They held press conferences, a literally fake Legislative hearing/investigation, informercials, but almost nothing went to court. All of the affidavits tossed about in interviews or fake testimony, almost all of it disregarded by the actual lawyers that, in a few rare cases, went to court.
And for the obvious reason, it was all a lie, and it is a lot easier to lie to the public than it is to demonstrate lies, especially when they are bald faced lies, in a court room. So you had the GOP seats in the House of Representatives, voting in majority to support lies that were never tested in court. Why? Because lying has became normalized in the Trump Administration. The lies from Trump became enough to simply use that to support the GOP's outrageous anti-democracy actions in the House, and in a more limited sense, in the Senate.
And the former President continues to lie, Republicans are growing increasingly in support of the people that invaded the US Capitol Building, chanting to death to their sitting VIce President... and forcing Congress to evacuate, and that it is actually the Democrats who are causing the problems here. The right-wing lying has become so normalized we are stepping beyond George Orwell novels.