After the Jan. 6 insurrection, Mitch McConnell said, in the Senate chamber:
"The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president and other powerful people, and they tried to use fear and violence to stop a specific proceeding [certification of Biden’s election] which they did not like. But we pressed on. We stood together and said an angry mob would not get veto power over the rule of law in our nation. . . . Donald Trump was practically and morally responsible for the Capitol insurrection."
That was then. This is Mitch McConnell now (June 13, 2024):
“He and I got a chance to talk; we shook hands a few times. He got a lot of standing ovations. It was an entirely positive meeting. I can’t think of anything to tell you that was negative.”
But if there is one Profile in Courage among today’s Republicans, it is Liz Cheney.
And Liz ain’t putting up with all this snivelling Republican cowardice:
“Mitch McConnell knows Trump provoked the violent attack on our Capitol and then watched television happily as his mob brutally beat police officers and hunted the Vice President. He knows Trump refused for hours to tell his mob to leave and even then with police officers bleeding he kept repeating his election lies and praising the criminals. He knows Trump committed a disgraceful dereliction of duty and is a danger to our Republic. . . . History will remember the shame of people like McConnell.”
Bravo to Liz Cheney, a rare Profile in Courage among today’s cowardly Republicans.
For me, the most interesting aspect of this discussion is that Frank thinks that I'M delusional, that Dems are delusion, and that he sees the facts and truth. So the question is (here and all across America): how do we bridge this divide, when each side thinks the other side is delusional, and has an avalanche of "facts" (or "alternative facts") to back it our positions?
The discussion here clearly demonstrates this dilemma.
So how do we find any solutions to very real problems when each side has a different vision of reality, and each side thinks the other side is delusional?
It's a stark dilemma facing the country as a future-determining election bears down on us.
Awe... so sad for lefties, liberals and Democrats that their reliable establishment Republicans are no longer hoisting the tired old lie of Trump causing a Jan-6 insurrection. Yeah, those bearded construction workers and old ladies with their flags and signs where sure a threat to take over the country. It is fascinating reviewing this from the outside and getting educated in the process of media-inflamed mass psychosis. The failure of people to accept that the old GOP establishment Regime lie is over is gonna cause another We Will Resist insurrection and murderous leftist national riots again where poor neighborhoods are burned to the ground!