Chris Hayes: We have watched this from 2015. Every single thing that Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney said about the man was true and they knew it. And anyone who was too stupid to know it is too stupid for public life, that it would always end up here. Mitch McConnell said in May of 2016 , he reassured Republicans that his temperament would be fine.
And now that the entire enterprise sits atop a mountain of corpses in the deadliest year in American history as we have watched people storm the capitol and attempt to stop the peaceful transfer of power ..[inaudible] I understand the desire to not run around with your hair on fire but this is very clearly a national emergency that we find ourselves in and it is slightly bizarre to watch the kind of decrepit proceduralism of the congress at this moment when we are in said emergency.
I think he was talking about this in particular:
Clearly, there is no energy for doing what needs to be done,as usual. But there should be. The reason for doing it is simple. You can preclude someone who is convicted from holding federal office ever again. They won’t do that, of course, because so many Republican voters love Donald Trump. But he is even more unfit that he was the day he came down in that escalator.
More Chris:
I relate to his passion on this. I’m sick that we’ve come to this but we knew that Trump was a lunatic from the beginning. And I blame the Republicans, who also knew this, for foisting this grotesque demagogue on us for their own purposes.