Saying Donald Trump is a Russian "Colluder" meant that Hillary Clinton had paid a British spy to manufacture a phony dossier implicating Trump.
Then - after the Jan. 6 House select committee voted to hold Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress - they pivoted and announced that the Big Lie was now "The Big Coup." Meadows was chief of staff to President Trump, and since Trump clearly believed the election was stolen, it should be no surprise that Meadows was in constant communication with members of Congress and others who were working to prove that fraud had taken place.
The only chance of keeping Trump in the White House was not by invading the Capitol, but by keeping it secure while our representatives debated the validity of the election using the entirely constitutional process taking place inside the halls of Congress.
The riot instantly doomed any chance Trump had of prevailing in his argument that the election was stolen.
First of all, Trump's belief that the election was stolen is protected by his First Amendment right of free speech.
As Liz Cheney and Nancy Pelosi do, that Trump didn't have a right to contest the election is to replace the rule of law with the rule of intimidation.
They trotted out text messages from Trump supporters condemning the violence and said that meant Trump himself must have supported the violence.
It's becoming increasingly difficult to discern fact from fiction, and unfortunately the media has a strong bias. They spin stories to make conservatives look bad and will go to great lengths to avoid reporting on the good that comes from conservative policies. There are a few shining lights in the media landscape-brave conservative outlets that report the truth and offer a different perspective. We must support conservative outlets like this one and ensure that our voices are heard.
Friday, January 7, 2022
The Big Lie and the Elastic Truth: How to Invent a Coup
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