"Republicans have no one but themselves to blame for allowing this autocratic buffoon to hijack their party.
But Republicans chose either to ignore Trump’s transgressions or to assist them." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mcconnell-mccarthy-new-gop-leadership/2021/01/07/c5c97044-5042-11eb-83e3-322644d82356_story.html
But Republicans chose either to ignore Trump’s transgressions or to assist them." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mcconnell-mccarthy-new-gop-leadership/2021/01/07/c5c97044-5042-11eb-83e3-322644d82356_story.html
"Fearful that Trump could take actions resulting in further violence and death if he remains in office even for a few days, senior administration officials were discussing Wednesday night whether the Cabinet might invoke the 25th Amendment" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-resignations-25th-amendment/2021/01/07/e131ce10-50a3-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html
"The leaders of the Republican Party also bear a measure of responsibility for the attack on the Capitol." https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/opinion/trump-capitol-dc-protests.html
"Trump did not want every legal vote counted. He wanted legally counted votes to be erased; he wanted new votes discovered in his favor. He wanted to win, not lose; whatever the cost, whatever the means." https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/opinion/trump-capitol-protests.html
"The problem isn’t those who took Trump at his word from the start. It’s the many, many elected Republicans who took him neither seriously nor literally, but cynically. They have brought this upon themselves — and us." https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/opinion/trump-capitol-protests.html
"The Republican Party is now walking to the edge of moral irredeemability. I say this as someone who, until 2016, had always voted the straight Republican ticket and who, until this week, had hoped that Republicans would hold the Senate..." https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/opinion/impeach-trump.html
"Trump was propped up for four years by Fox News, through all the lies, the hypocrisy, the policy failures. Day after day the network normalized the ugliest, most divisive and abominable behavior ever seen in an American president." https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-07/trump-supporters-capitol-riots
"Every minute, every second, that Trump is allowed to spend attacking on American democracy might look ridiculous and absurd and comical to you. But it is not. It has a very, very specific purpose. It is corroding trust." https://eand.co/this-is-why-trump-keeps-doubling-down-on-his-coup-7c90b117d3bd