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Do Republicans Deserve to Be Hated?
From mind-boggling conspiracy theories to the Capitol riot, they have a lot to answer for.
The last 12 months haven’t been the best, have they? I mean, we saw the world consumed by a pandemic. We witnessed the gruesome death of George Floyd. We watched as the number of unemployed skyrocketed. We presided over a tenuous U.S. election.
And, then, in the wee hours of 2021, we looked on as the U.S. Capitol was overrun by a violent mob, which had been all but instructed to do so by their then-president.
The last year has been a stressful time for many of us, especially between the election and inauguration day. We were glued to our TVs and phones, and not just because we literally had nothing else to do. It felt like the United States was teetering on a knife’s edge. When things finally snapped on January 6, we were perhaps more outraged than surprised. The months leading up to this day had been filled with lies and vitriol, specifically meant to incite the kind of violence that occurred.
Putting aside the obvious failure of law enforcement agencies to predict what absolutely everyone else saw coming, who do you blame for this attack on democracy? Does the blame lie squarely on the former president’s shoulders? Or, is the Republican Party also to blame…
