Trapped in the bubble

They really need to get out of it.

One of the amazing things I read this weekend was that Republicans are still trapped in a bubble when it comes to the 2020 election. Writer after writer has talked about election integrity while not understanding what the term actually means. One writer recently decreed that it is the Democratic Party that interfered in elections, not the party that actually tried to overthrow the government in 2020.

That’s a shameful viewpoint. Here is why:

1) The terms “Constitutional Republic” and “Democracy” are not mutually exclusive. They are, in fact, complementary. The US is a Constitutional Republic that operates on democratic principles (at least for now).

2). The Mueller Report and many other legal events since then have established that the Trump Campaign ( if not Trump himself) did reach out to Russia and attempt to collude with that country. As Mueller himself laid out, the only reason he did not indict him for obstruction of justice was the DOJ ruling on indicting sitting Presidents. The report had Russian collusion all over it. You don’t get to say there was not. Just this week, a Trump campaign advisor was indicted by DOJ. He expressly was not exonerated on that point.

3) January 6th, contrary to his assertion, was an attack on the Democratic process. The election had…