Did anyone -- anywhere -- actually believe that Ron Johnson didn't understand what he was doing?
"Sen. Ron Johnson's claim he knew nothing about a fake electors plot isn't believable"
"Johnson initially claimed he didn’t know about the plot, but recent documents — including text messages — show that Johnson and his staff were told explicitly about the plot to deliver the fake electoral votes."
"Former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn starts PAC after losing House run"
"The group will be called Dunn’s Democracy Defenders, and it aims to stop former President Donald Trump and what Dunn calls “MAGA extremists” in the Republican Party from winning their elections this fall. Dunn plans to endorse candidates up and down the ballot through the group, using his personal story and his fundraising prowess to help in targeted races.
Periodic reminder that a person who understands moral principles, yet chooses to do bad things anyway is an IMMoral person (prefix = against or opposite of), not "amoral."
Amorality (prefix = without) ... so, without moral sense. An example is the dog peeing on your shoe. That is an amoral act. Very very different from an immoral human.
Given the amount of news coverage on the MAGA response to Trump's criminal conviction, normal people who don't ingest a ton of news would think that very few support the conviction or the fairness of the trial. But that's not true.
The MAGA base is loud but most estimates have them as only 25%-30% of the population.
Over-amplification of the MAGA minority viewpoint, regretfully, boosts that perspective. Regular people will view it as the "popular" view -- when it is not.
I had my 13 year old watch the verdict. Afterwards, I said--in a calm, measured tone: "This is important because it proves that nobody is above the law. That's one of the most important foundations of a democracy."