The groups that organized Wednesday’s “March to Save America” — the “Stop the Steal” demonstration that turned into an attack on the nation’s legislature — are quietly disappearing from the internet.
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A family member of one of the people killed during the pro-Trump insurrection on Wednesday called for the invocation of the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump from office.
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) became the first Republican senator to call on President Trump to resign on Friday, after a deadly insurrection at the Capitol this week left five people dead.
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Former Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) conceded Friday, a day after Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) did, both acknowledging that they lost fairly and declining to pull a Trump-like legal blitz to try to reverse the results.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), having unhitched himself from President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the election after Trump supporters mobbed the Capitol, now finds himself at the center of MAGAland’s fury for turning his back on the man he once so slavishly enabled.
TPM Reader SS responds to my puzzling over the festooned, over-the-top, costumed insurrection:
Thanks for all your commentary and coverage on TPM, I’m a longtime reader (etc etc) — you guys do just vital, crucial work.
On your question today: “One of the elements of the Trump era I struggle with the most is how to explain to future generations that the threat to democracy arrived in a such a tawdry, low brow, gaudy and comical way. You can’t separate the genuine threat to democracy from the reality TV theatrics. The Capitol Police officer taking a fire extinguisher to the head and the horned fur cap are part of the same surreal tableau.”
This is all the aesthetics of dogwhistle politics. I’ve written about this in academic circles, but basically (as Josh has noted many times), dogwhistling relies on deniability “we’re not really racist, we’re not really fascist, we’re just reasonable people making reasonable political claims in time-honored ways.” There has to be some mechanism of concealment, or there’s no deniability.
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A Confederate flag was found tied to the front door of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City early Friday morning, just steps away from a vintage train car outside the museum that was used to transport Jews to Auschwitz death camps.
After the acting U.S. Attorney of D.C. suggested that the Justice Department was not putting off-limits the speeches made by President Trump and others Wednesday that egged on the violent mob at the Capitol, DOJ officials played down the possibility that they might bring charges for those remarks, NBC News reported Friday.
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is readying himself to seize the title as the nation’s great unifier — never mind his robust record of trying to undermine the democratic process.
McCarthy announced on Friday that he had plans to chat with President-elect Joe Biden on how to unite the country days after McCarthy supported an effort to overturn the presidential election that culminated in a deadly insurrection on Wednesday.
“I have reached out to President-elect Biden today and plan to speak to him about how we much work together to lower the temperature and unit the country,” McCarthy wrote, adding that he opposes calls from Democratic colleagues pushing for Trump’s impeachment in the aftermath of the Capitol siege.
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Richard “Bigo” Barnett, the Arkansas man who landed on front pages worldwide after he was photographed reclining at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) desk and stealing her mail on Wednesday, has been arrested.
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