Brian Tyler Cohen: Rand Paul Continues to Lie About “Irregularities” in the 2020 Election

Brianna Keilar: ‘G.O.P.’s Hypocrisy on Accountability with Trump Impeachment Trial’

Marlon Craft: ‘State of the Union’

Randy Rainbow: ‘Seasons of Trump’

 

James Corden: ‘“One Day More” of President Trump — “Les Misérables” Parody’

Matthew Cooke: ‘Wake-Up Call for Republicans’

 

‘The Circus’: Season 6 Premiere

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Joy Reid: ‘White Americans aren’t afraid of the cops.’

Brianna Keilar: ‘Trump’s Republican Enablers Have Blood on Their Hands’

I.T.V. News: ‘Inside the U.S. Capitol as Trump Supporters Storm Building — I.T.V. News Eyewitness Report’

 

‘Seth Meyers Addresses the Armed Insurrection at the U.S. Capitol’

 

Eleanor Cummins: ‘A Requiem for the Twitter Presidency’

 

From Vox:

The first American social media presidency came to something of an end last month [November 2020], not when the votes rolled in but when Twitter flagged six of President Trump’s tweets in less than 24 hours.

To view Trump’s pronouncements — most of them vociferous claims that he’d won the election he has since certifiably lost — users had to click past a warning that each tweet’s content “might be misleading about an election or other civic process.”

It was a dramatic departure for the 45th president’s favorite platform, where for almost a decade he’s honed his persona as a trash-talking businessman, spewed racist conspiracies, and incited violence largely without interference. But this year, amid rampant coronavirus misinformation and baseless charges of election fraud, Twitter finally cracked down on one of its biggest accounts, with 88 million followers. The warnings, however, haven’t really stopped @RealDonaldTrump’s lies from circulating.

Over four tumultuous years, Trump hasn’t just broken every rule of online engagement — he’s rewritten the playbook. Now every politician is forced to engage on social media, though few use their preferred platforms more skillfully. Barack Obama was the first sitting president on Twitter (and continues to have more followers on the platform), but Trump was the one to weaponize it....

Trump will soon be leaving Washington, but his tactics will influence GOP politicking in particular for years to come.

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Update: On January 8, 2021, Twitter suspended Donald Trump’s Twitter account indefinitely. 

Eric Levitz: ‘House G.O.P. Admits It Opposes Democracy, Not Voter Fraud’

 

Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy (R-California)

 

From New York magazine:

The conservative movement has been xenophobic, intellectually bankrupt, and proto-authoritarian since well before the phrase “President Donald Trump” ceased to be a Simpsons reference.

Mitt Romney’s “compassionate conservative” pedigree did not stop him from demanding the self-deportation of “illegals” in 2012 (nor, for that matter, did not prevent him from kissing the birther king’s ring). The GOP’s disregard for deficits under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush did not stop it from fomenting anti-debt hysteria under Bill Clinton and Barack Obama; nor did the repeated failure of supply-side tax cuts to pay for themselves stop Republicans from insisting that the next round would. Meanwhile, through aggressive gerrymandering, the Roberts Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act, and various voting restrictions aimed at combating nonexistent mass voter fraud, Republicans have been chipping away at the foundations of our liberal democracy for more than a decade.

But they used to have some sense of decorum: Conservatives insisted that their opposition to “amnesty” was rooted in a commitment to the rule of law and concern for native-born workers, not racial animus against nonwhite immigrants; that their support for regressive taxation derived from macroeconomic models and not plutocratic avarice; and that their apparent attempts to suppress the votes of Democratic-leaning constituencies reflected earnest concern about safeguarding the integrity of election results, not a conviction that their opposition had no legitimate right to govern.

Donald Trump had no patience for such politesse. For five years now, the mogul has been waging total war on the American right’s (im)plausible deniability about its own true nature. There were plenty of immigration restrictionists in the 2016 GOP primary, but the Republican base opted for the one who’d declared that Mexicans were rapists and that no Muslims should be allowed to enter the United States. By manically oscillating between contradictory economic proposals — calling for universal health care and higher taxes on the wealthy one day, work requirements for Medicaid and supply-side tax cuts the next — Trump revealed the policy nihilism of the self-styled “party of ideas.” The high priests of supply-side voodoo may have disdained empirical rigor, but only Trump broadcasted contempt for the very concepts of ideological coherence or reasoned argument.

Now, in his presidency’s final chapter, Trump has torn away the conservative movement’s most precious fig leaf — the one concealing its naked contempt for democracy.

 

Read the full article.

 

Boy, if Trump were a Democrat, he’d be in big trouble.