Editorial: What’s the GOP’s new ‘big lie’? Jan. 6 was ‘legitimate political discourse’
Jan. 6, 2021, the day a mob of Donald Trump loyalists carried out an insurrection against the Capitol, is etched in the minds of Americans. No doubt historians will memorialize that terrible, ugly day as a nadir in American democracy, a moment of shame that indelibly scarred the nation.
It won’t be remembered by historians as a day of “legitimate political discourse.”
And yet, the Republican Party has set out to brand Jan. 6 at its winter meeting last week in Salt Lake City.
