SojoMail - Who is morally accountable for Jan. 6?

We Still Need Moral Accountability for Jan. 6 Adam Russell Taylor In the immediate aftermath of Jan. 6, 2021, I naively believed that the violent attempt to overturn the 2020 election outcome would serve as a breaking point for the nation and the Republican Party. Despite the party’s anti-democratic slide, including so many embracing the lie that the 2020 election was stolen, I thought the collective horror of the day — felt across the political spectrum — would awaken everyone to the danger that former President Donald Trump and his enablers posed to our democracy. Of course, we now know that isn’t what happened. In the two years since Jan. 6, election denialism has maintained its grip on a large share of Republican politicians. Just this week, a segment of congressional Republicans who embrace Trump’s lie of a stolen election have prevented their party’s caucus from electing a House speaker, despite multiple rounds of voting. On this second anniversary of the attack on the Capitol that left five people dead, we must counteract efforts to downplay and obscure what happened that day. READ THE FULL ARTICLE Forward Share

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