“Ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.”
This is how the Republican National Committee is describing the mob of Trump supporters that broke into and vandalized the Capitol last Jan. 6, resulting in five deaths and dozens of injured police officers. The very, very kind frame of the violent effort to subvert democracy comes in an RNC resolution to censure Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) for “persecuting” these “ordinary citizens” by serving on the Jan. 6 committee. The RNC formally approved the resolution, and its euphemistic language about the tragedy at the Capitol, on Friday afternoon.
“The primary mission of the Republican Party is to elect Republicans who support the United States Constitution and share our values,” writes the party who has supported efforts to overturn the results of a free and fair presidential…
