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I want to make one thing perfectly clear to those who make their living providing political news and analyses.
Insurrectionists do not get to define "Unity."
Insurrectionists do not get to define "Unity."
We have frequently been told "Elections have consequences" while McConnell pushed confirmations of subpar and outright outrageous judicial nominees, including Judiciary voting Clotheshanger Barrett out of committee without a quorum.
Any objection to Trump's reactionary and retrograde agenda was met with derision best summed up by the GOP trademarked phrase, "Fuck your feelings."
No one has ever demanded that Republicans seek unity. Nonetheless, I support Biden's drive for unity because he does not define unity as adopting the Republican agenda and belief system. That's not unity and the media cannot continue allowing the GOP to define it as such.
Unity does not mean ignoring insurrection and incitement of violence. It does not mean ignoring a coup attempt. It does not mean giving up our beliefs. It means assuming that people who disagree with us do so honestly, not because they are corrupt.
Unity means speaking of our political opponents with the assumption they are operating in good faith; that they are not lesser Americans. That does not apply to insurrectionists who have proven they are disloyal.
Unity means calling Gov. Ivey of Arkansas to see if she needs anything after tornadoes rather than letting wildfires rage for weeks before allowing FEMA aid. Unity means providing PPE and vaccines to red states AND blue states.
Unity means not sitting around while crafting tax policy to see how you can stick it to California voters, suggesting that losses to wildfires should not be deductible, for example.
So, next time Insurrectionist @GOPLeader McCarthy spews words about unity, remember he is an architect of division, a man who would overturn our democracy and end it in the pursuit of power. There is no unity with McCarthy - never even try.
The Republican party gets away with electing rapists, child molesters, money launderers, insider traders, Medicare fraudsters, and Q-Anon conspiracy freaks because they have defined deviancy down to the sub-basement. They get away with it because no one expects better of them.
