There’s No Healing From This

A major political party decided they’re done with democracy. We can’t forgive and move on.

Katelyn Burns
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Just two days after Republican insurrectionists took over the U.S. Capitol and numerous state capitols, and 147 Republican members of Congress voted against the official Electoral College vote certification shortly afterward, those same lawmakers are now begging the country to forgive and forget.

Respectfully, fuck that.

Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-SC, a stalwart ally of insurrectionist president Donald Trump, insisted on Friday morning that impeaching Trump now, with just two weeks left in his term, would only sow further division. (This comes from the same man who was caught on tape in mid-November asking the Georgia secretary of state to overturn the results of the state’s legally run election.) Graham is now asking that the country “heal” and move on from the violence of this week, which he had a direct hand in causing.

Several major GOP figures echoed Graham’s calls for healing, like House Minority Leader…

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Katelyn Burns
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Political journalist. The first openly trans Capitol Hill reporter in US history. Writing about more than just trans issues. Follow her on Twitter @transscribe