"The biggest problem facing the nation now is not what to do with Trump, who will soon become yesterday's news. The crisis is that more than 70 percent of Republican voters believe — falsely — that there was some kind of widespread fraud in the election. The essence of democracy is accepting both victory and loss as legitimate outcomes.
"A GOP that internalizes and retains Trump's conspiratorial worldview is not a political party. It is a dangerous cult. Elected officials who have cynically — or cravenly — gone along with that cult's lies will not find it easy to reverse course.
"Much more important than whether Trump is convicted in his coming trial is whether Republicans level with their constituents and tell them that Trump is lying.
If Republicans won't — or can't — tell the truth about the November election, they are no longer participants in our democracy. They are its enemies." -- Eugene Robinson in today's Washington Post on the "Big Lie" that Mango Mussolini and party elites continue to tell about the legitimate Biden victory. It's a lie that fuels the rage of the MAGA morons threatening violence around the country before, during and after the Inauguration.
