As the New York Times points out, the refusal of GOP leaders “to take action is yet another example of how Republican leaders have allowed those forces to fester and strengthen.”
Tim Miller: “They would avert their gaze when Trump would retweet QAnon accounts or tell the proud boys to ‘stand back and stand by.’ They would try to tiptoe around the crazy, expressing concern about the ‘deep state’ or by attacking the elitist media for not taking the supposedly legitimate but unspecified concerns of their constituents seriously. They’d tell reporters on background that they were ‘uneasy’ about what was happening but not actually do anything about it. They’d offer strained equivalences pointing to ‘something something AOC’ rather than address the termites eating away at their own mansion.”
