Republicans Tried to Overturn an Election. Never Let Them Forget It | Opinion Robert Reich
, Newsweek Columnist and chancellor’s professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley On 5/10/21 at 9:46 AM EDT
America prefers to look forward rather than back. We re a land of second acts. We move on. And this can be a strength: We don t get bogged down in outmoded traditions, old grudges, obsolete ways of thinking. We constantly reinvent. We love innovation and disruption. But there s a downside: a collective amnesia about what we ve been though, and a corresponding reluctance to do anything about it or hold anyone accountable.
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America prefers to look forward rather than back. We’re a land of second acts. We move on.
This can be a strength. We don’t get bogged down in outmoded traditions, old grudges, obsolete ways of thinking. We constantly reinvent. We love
innovation and disruption.
The downside is a collective amnesia
about what we’ve been though, and a corresponding reluctance to do
anything about it or hold anyone accountable.
Now, with COVID receding and the economy starting to rebound and the 2020 election and the attack on the Capitol behind us the future looks bright.
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Former President Donald Trump called the horse that won the Kentucky Derby a “junky” and said its failed drug test is “emblematic” of other alleged cheating in the country. So now even our Kentucky Derby winner, Medina Spirit, is a junky, Trump said in a statement on Sunday. This is emblematic of what is happening to our Country. The whole world is laughing at us as we go to hell on our Borders, our fake Presidential Election, and everywhere else,” Trump continued.
Medina Spirit won the Kentucky Derby last weekend, but it was revealed Sunday that the animal had an illegal amount of an anti-inflammatory in its system. Medina Spirit has not been disqualified from other races, as officials are waiting for another sample to determine the horse s future.
Republicans are expected to believe the falsehoods, pretend they do or at bare minimum not let it be known that they don’t. State Republican leaders from Georgia to Arizona have been flamed by Trump or his followers for standing against the lies.
Only a select few Republicans in Washington are defying him, for they, too, know that doing so comes with a cost.
Liz Cheney, lifelong conservative and daughter of a vice president once loved by the Republican right while earning the nickname Darth Vader, was willing to pay it.
“History is watching,” the Wyoming congresswoman wrote as House Republicans prepared to strip her of her No. 3 leadership position this coming week over her confrontation with Trump. “Republicans need to stand for genuinely conservative principles, and steer away from the dangerous and anti-democratic Trump cult of personality.”