What my friend @EWErickson, and @jaketapper who I don’t know at all, continue to fail to realize is that these are not isolated incidents. Trump, Q, conspiracy nonsense, populism, on and on. They are the result, the response, to decades of behavior by the GOP/party leaders/the https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1352248223964999688

Establishment/the Swamp/whatever. Until it is recognized, internalized, and admitted to; until there is a true accounting for the decades of lies, half truths, denigrations, sneering condescension, and general holier than thou smartest person in the room BS, this won’t change.

You say there needs to be an accounting? That things like Q and conspiracy mongering are a rot that needs to be cleared out? I’m inclined to agree with you. But it’s not the only rot that needs to go. What you’re seeing today is just the fever; it’s not the infection.