Don't get snowed by fake GOP outrage about Biden's criticism of right wing extremism. It's a sucker's game, a bad-faith effort to redefine "unity" as agreeing to absolve Republicans from blame for enabling Trump and his attack on our country. My latest: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/21/gop-response-biden-speech-unity/

It's bizarre. Biden called out racism, white supremacy, and domestic terrorism.

Republicans promptly decided that in condemning those things, Biden was actually talking about them.

This may seem like standard bad faith. But there's a deeper ploy here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/21/gop-response-biden-speech-unity/

Why are Republicans in such a rage?

Because Biden was 100% correct. The real threat to unity in this country — to civic peace, to democratic coexistence, to mutual acknowledgment of the legitimacy of the opposition — absolutely is right wing extremism:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/21/gop-response-biden-speech-unity/

This is rhetorical extortion: "You aren't truly seeking to unify the country until you refrain from holding us accountable for tearing it apart."

They are betting the media will place the full onus of "unity" on Biden.

We don't have to play this game:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/21/gop-response-biden-speech-unity/

Here is perhaps the most comical exercise of bad faith along these lines we've seen yet, from the king of bad faith himself: https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1352295752102535172

And here's another one: https://twitter.com/davidrlurie/status/1352332774183731202