Mitch McConnell just called the rioters today "unhinged."
This is how ableism upholds white supremacy. He is invoking mental illness to separate out the blame from whiteness.
As if the rioters weren't acting on white supremacist beliefs he's helped amplify.
My first resolution in Congress will be to call for the expulsion of the Republican members of Congress who incited this domestic terror attack on the Capitol.
Historian of coups and right-wing authoritarians here. If there are not severe consequences for every lawmaker & Trump govt official who backed this, every member of the Capitol Police who collaborated with them, this "strategy of disruption" will escalate in 2021
NPR guidance: we won’t be calling the people who stormed the Capitol ‘protestors’ - they are ‘pro-Trump extremists’ and what they are doing is ‘insurrection’.
You shouldn’t be nervous about the Wayne County bullshit, but you should be fucking enraged.
Republican politicians in DC and across the country are openly trying to help Trump steal this election, and there’s no reason to think they won’t try it again and again.
It shouldn’t mean so much to hear a president be decent to those who disagree with him, call for protecting the climate and the vulnerable, promise to appoint a COVID task force of scientists and listen to them.
But right now, it does.
Anyone saying this after immigrant organizers delivered AZ, Black grassroots flipped Georgia, MI going blue w reality-bending 94% Detroit margin + @RashidaTlaib running up the margins in her district & Trump publicly challenging @IlhanMN in MN and losing isn’t a serious person.