"Abdicating their oath to the Constitution, in service to keeping peace with Donald Trump, was always going to be temporary for congressional Republicans. That is what they told themselves. Yet the damage from their refusal to counter Trump’s fraud is not short-term. It will eviscerate what faith many Americans had left in our elections, not just now but forever. And they will have helped not only delegitimize Biden’s presidency but future Republican presidents as well.
"Many Trump outrages look and sound the same. The language is always familiar, and the reaction of Republicans to not see or hear it is as predictable as the sunrise. But this is the worst thing he has ever done to the country, and abiding it is Republicans’ worst dereliction." -- A.B. Stoddard at RealClearPolitics.com. Since it strikes a potentially fatal blow at the heart of our democracy, some might call it treason.
