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ThyBlackMan.com) “When someone shows you who they are,” Maya Angelou said, “believe them the first time.” We’re about to be reminded who and what the corporate-owned Democratic Party is something it showed us in 2009.
A pair of upset victories in the widely watched pair of Georgia senatorial runoff elections has handed Democrats what they said they needed to get big things done: control of the White House, the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. If they want, they have argued over the last year, they will be able to push through a lot of important legislation on the liberal agenda: a dramatic increase in the minimum wage, student loan forgiveness, an eviction ban, “Medicare for All,” expanded economic stimulus and addressing the climate crisis come to mind.
Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier on Jan. 6 at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
The events of Jan. 6, 2021, were the revenge of reality. Words became actions. Grievances became violence. Tweets became flesh.
And then tweets lost control of flesh.
Was all this foreseeable? We knew neither the time nor place, but sooner or later, the glorification of violence was going to lead to actual violence.
Sooner or later, the glorification of violence was going to lead to actual violence.
An important casualty of recent years in U.S. politics has been our purchase on reality. Some of the best commentary on Trump-era politics, and from conservatives at that, concerns the politics of fantasy.
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WASHINGTON Among the factors undergirding the new effort by House Democrats to impeach President Donald Trump again is a controversial legal theory that doing so could bar him from pardoning himself, according to those involved.
The theory is among the many reasons and there are many, as tempers still flare after an violent and destructive attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters on Wednesday that more than 100 House Democrats have signed on to an effort to impeach Trump, confirmed two members of Congress and a congressional aide involved in the talks.
That reasoning has only taken on more urgency as Trump has in recent weeks discussed issuing himself a pardon, according to the