Let’s not beat around the bush. The Republican Party has told the nation and the world that it no longer believes in democracy and the rule of law. That’s the only conclusion you can draw from an official Republican National Committee resolution that declared the events of Jan. 6 “legitimate political discourse,” and effectively kicked Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger out of the party for—horrors!—serving on the House committee charged with getting to the bottom of that horrible day’s events.
There was already ample reason to question the GOP’s commitment to democracy long before it adopted this fundamentally unAmerican and undemocratic resolution. It has firmly lashed itself to Donald Trump despite overwhelming evidence that he not only incited this insurrection, but did so when he knew damn well that he had lost.
This is why when RNC Chairman Ronna McDaniel attempted to say that the resolution wasn’t really endorsing the violence that took place at the Capitol, she only proved what we have known for some time. That is, she is morally bankrupt.
