John Cornyn of TX, another vote to acquit: "Given that the Constitution makes legal offenses committed while in office subject to investigation and prosecution as warranted, after a President is no longer in office, I believe that is the Constitutional method of accountability."
* at least six GOP senators who voted to acquit Trump over J6 said at the time that it would be Constitutional to prosecute him criminally *
I have been having a ridiculous amount of fun playing Alien Isolation VR since Christmas, so immersive and terrifying
Ross Douthat wrote a whole column around this counterfactual: "imagine if Hillary Clinton pulled a January 6th and ran for president again, wouldn't you be mad if a court kicked her off the ballot" www.nytimes.com/2023/12/23/o... (gift link)
Jan. 6 was not the same kind of event as the Confederacy’s succession.
Clinton got 3 million more votes, was victimized by illegal hacking, Trump committed campaign crimes hiding the Stormy payments, AND the FBI broke protocol harming her and SHE STILL CONCEDED.
What’s always telling to me is the assumption in pieces like this that Trump-level hero-worship is a completely normal, unremarkable thing that everyone does with politicians.
Ross Douthat wrote a whole column around this counterfactual: "imagine if Hillary Clinton pulled a January 6th and ran for president again, wouldn't you be mad if a court kicked her off the ballot" www.nytimes.com/2023/12/23/o... (gift link)
Jan. 6 was not the same kind of event as the Confederacy’s succession.
Chris Rufo's assistant celebrated the Claudine Gay plagiarism scandal they singlehandedly created with a pepe meme, and by responding to a white nationalist account that said that "Gay types" can't cut it in Math or engineering or other "real" fields.
