Corollaries to the Big Lie

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by Thomas Mills


Republicans and conservatives are rewriting history as it occurs and creating corollaries to the Big Lie. People like Lindsey Graham are calling for unity and healing after they split the country wide open by validating and repeating the lies of Donald Trump. Other conservative are trying to muddy the waters, comparing the attack on the Capitol and Members of Congress to the protests that rocked cities across the nation this summer. And they have pseudo-news organizations to amplify their misinformation.

Instead of trying to right the wrongs they’ve promoted or tolerated, Republicans are doubling down. As the New York Times reports, “[A]ny window of reflection now seems to be closing as Republicans try to pass blame and to compare last summer’s lawlessness, which was condemned by Democrats, to an attack on Congress, which was inspired by Mr. Trump.” Rudi Giulliani and others are continuing to claim the attacks were orchestrated by the left in an “attempt to slander Trump.” It’s just another lie.

In the Atlantic, McKay Coppins describes a party trying to bury the truth of the last four years with a “collective case of amnesia.” Republicans will do to themselves what they’ve done to their base: lie about it. In their retelling, the past four years will be a story of tax cuts, deregulation, and remaking the courts. Trump will be relegated to a minor role and his most egregious sins, including the Big Lie, will be dismissed as relatively harmless. It will be the culmination of alternative facts creating an alternative history.

Other conservatives are trying to bothsides the problem, claiming the attack was related to the violence associated with protests this summer. Here in North Carolina, John Hood, Chair of the conservative John Locke Foundation, wrote, “What happened on Jan. 6 was not an isolated incident. It was the latest in a series of punches to the gut of our body politic. Attempted assassinations and kidnappings of public officials. Riotous attacks on other public buildings, from state capitals to police stations. Property destruction and vandalism. Violence and threats of violence.” John’s prescription calls on “all of us, across the political spectrum” to denounce violence and to “make integrity our No. 1 criterion when choosing leaders.”

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