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To Save Democracy and Create Unity, Democrats Must Eliminate Filibuster
Speaking last Friday at the Conservative Political Alliance Conference (CPAC), Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz stood by the objections they raised to the senate’s typically perfunctory and ritualistic certification of the electoral vote affirming Joe Biden’s election to the presidency. These objections no doubt contributed to the Trump’s months-long incitement of the rioters who besieged the nation’s Capitol in murderous fashion last January 6.
I’m not going anywhere,” Hawley told the audience. “I thought it was an important stand to take.”
Cruz even went so far as to downplay the real threat the murderous mob posed to members of congress, staff, police, and other workers at the Capitol, mocking Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s expressions of fear while effectively ignoring the cries of the mob to lynch Mike Pence and kill Nancy Pelosi.
And, of course, they are not alone, joined by Republican Senator Johnson who continues to assert the violent protests were led by fake Trump supporters, not to mention the vast majority of senators who refused to indict Trump in the recent impeachment hearings and the many who continue to promulgate the conspiracy theory that the election was stolen from Trump.
