![]() ![]() 6 community, and they keep pushing facts out there which is making that dance between elected Republicans and Donald Trump hard to sustain. At the same time, you have got a lot of elected Republicans who they don`t want to say there for it, because that`s still pretty toxic in our political discourse.Īnd then you have the Jan. And that`s what that statement from the RNC a few days ago was about. It`s not enough just not to denounce the insurrection. So, in response to that, Donald Trump has been upping the ante recently. ![]() You see Ron DeSantis down in Florida, stuff like that. JOSH MARSHALL, FOUNDER AND EDITOR, TALKING POINTS MEMO: No, I think the best way to see this is, there`s a three-part sort of dance going on here.ĭonald Trump - there`s some signs that some people in the Republican Party, they`re not trying to denounce Trump, but they want to want to move on a little. The notion they`re pushing is that the events of January 6 were not a crime, not an insurrection, but rather were - quote - they claim - quote - "legitimate political discourse." ![]() And I have to tell you when it`s not normal. Then, the RNC formally endorsing a truly outrageous notion - if you watch this program, you know we try to give you the facts, but, sometimes, the facts involve things that are really just beyond the pale. Vice President Pence, who everyone knows is loyal to so many things Trump did and wanted - indeed, you could argue that Mike Pence was one of the most ridiculously loyal people in the Trump administration for the whole time - but when it comes to whether we keep a democracy, as they do dry runs and leak about coups and potentially try to normalize the next one, it is Mike Pence who said it out loud, that Trump is wrong about his big lie, and that he was wrong to try to bring this nation right into the brink of a coup. But that game is, in many ways over, thanks to some developments that are forcing a reckoning. In rhetoric, it meant often trying to have it both ways. Now, on policy, that meant fighting any inquiry into the riot. ![]()
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