Good thread. Read it. GOPs have rapidly moved on to mocking people who were afraid during the violent assault on the capitol they fomented. This amounts to the first step toward their explicit endorsement of the insurrection. Perception of threat is inherently subjective. https://twitter.com/hunterw/status/1357111221359697925

2/ But the only thing any Republican member of Congress - with the possible exception of Mitt Romney - should say to @AOC is “I’m sorry because I [enter name of elected] personally helped incite the insurrection.” As I said, perception of threat is inherently subjective.

3/ But I would guess that the vast majority of the violent Republican insurgents who stormed the capitol could identify at most a handful of Democratic members of Congress. Probably every last one could identify two: Nancy Pelosi and AOC. Pelosi as part of the line ...

4/ of succession has a security detail. Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t. It goes without saying that she would be among the most recognizable members and the most demonized. Of course she’d be terrified. So would you. The mockery of these accounts only confirms that most Republican ...

5/ influencers enjoyed and embrace the climate of violence and menace the insurrection symbolized. Faced with the choice of shifting the party’s direction or following the lead of the insurrectionists, they’ve chosen the later. One can only imagine the likes of Ted Cruz ...

6/ or Marco Rubio or Matt Gaetz hiding from a violent mob of people soaked in rage against them for years. These are all pitiful cowards. The Republican Party is a clear and present danger to American democracy, the constitution and the American republic itself.