To people citing the Nixon pardon as a way to justify a pardon of Trump and those involved in Wednesday’s #insurrection at the #Capitol, to create unity: The Nixon case isn’t the correct comparison. You should look at the pardons of confederate officers by Johnson... (1/4)

after the Civil War, done to “unify” the country. Rather than unity, that move generated obstacles to reconstruction, Jim Crow laws, monuments to confederate “heroes.” It got us Birmingham and Selma. It got four little girls murdered as they attempted to worship. (2/4)

It got MLK killed. Those pardons are why white cops don’t see black people as human beings. Those pardons are why we can’t rid the south of the vile confederate flag. Those pardons led to the insurrection — fomented largely by racist groups under Trump’s influence (3/4)

— at the Capitol on Weds. National security and the survival of the republic requires us to impeach, prosecute, and shun those involved in this attempt to overthrow the government. White supremacy cannot be allowed to prevail, or this week’s insurrection will happen again. (4/4)