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Hate that I'm going to have to spend the rest of my life doing this, but here we go. This was a dumb editorial decision. I don't care how on point the quote may be on the surface, you can't quote Lindsey Graham here. You just can't.
“How could they fail so miserably? [The mob] could have blown the building up. They could have killed us all,” said Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), a longtime Trump ally. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/capitol-police/2021/01/07/fa3114b8-5114-11eb-83e3-322644d82356_story.html
The cognitive dissonance should rattle your teeth. You can write about the cognitive dissonance while calling out Graham. But it is intellectually bankrupt to narrate the mob violence through the enablers of the mob violence.
You can't fall back on their official status as senators or representatives to justify allowing one of the arsonists to express outrage about the fire they started.
This is how it gets normalized. This is why we're so bad at shunning and isolating and extirpating these cancers from the body politic.
It's a small example. But it's telling. This only happened two days ago! If we can't get it right while it's still fresh, we're doomed to decades of think tank honors, awards dinners, and other DC niceties bestowed on the Grahams and Cruzes and Hawleys and all the rest of them.
(Do I need remind about Grahams phone call to the Georgia secretary of state to throw out legal ballots? See, this is the challenge of memory and truth and grounding in the facts. It's a neverending battle. I'm tired already.)
