What’s important here is the unflinching acknowledgment
of two things:
First, the claim by Trump and his enablers that he won is a deranged lie and anyone telling it is an enemy of U.S. constitutional democracy.
Second, this lie is what incited the violent siege of the Capitol.
Trump’s lies about the election, echoed by his enablers, are the cause of this threat. And a great many Republicans simply refuse to say this.
Greg Sargent writes The Plum Line blog. He joined The Post in 2010,after stints at Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine and the New York Observer.
7:41 PM 1/18/2021
