NYT headline about violent coup to topple multi party electoral order of US republic apes talking point of party that orchestrated and covers up for sedition by casting attempt at national reckoning & accountability as a political horse race stunt
New revised headline hardly better — still sets up bipartisan Congressional investigation of orchestrated violent attack on the republic as a partisan Democratic ploy to expose Republicans “role” – as if there was any other role
Originally tweeted by Philip Gourevitch (@PGourevitch) on June 7, 2022.
This has me as worried as anything. The media is setting up a narrative of “nobody cares about this old news” by asking every Democrat who appeared on the TV “will anyone tune in? Isn’t inflation more of a concern right now?” They insist on casting this as a partisan game instead of a genuine fight for democracy. It is a partisan fight, but that’s because one party has gone rogue and is trying to usurp our democratic system in order to maintain power.
It’s not debatable that the Democrats won the last election. They were not the ones who attempted a coup to overturn the results. They invited the Republicans to participate in a bipartisan commission investigation into what happened and they refused. And then they insisted on putting partisan firebrands on the House committee in order to turn it into a sideshow and the Speaker said no.
It’s clear she made the right decision. Look at what they are doing in advance of the hearings this week:
That’s not Louis Gohmert or Marjorie Taylor Greene. It’s Marco Rubio, once considered the Great Latino Hope of the GOP, running for re-election by being the Trumpy smart ass he once condemned. They have all become juvenile bullies, just like Trump and they have zero respect for the constitution or our democracy.