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"it was an attempt to seize power in contravention of the expressed will of the American people, and a grave assault on the basic foundations of the American republic."

"Any news report on Trump's candidacy that fails to mention his attack on the American republic a couple of years ago is failing the American voter. "

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"but the root question we ought to be asking here is why we, the press and public, have decided to treat Donald Trump as a legitimate presidential candidate.

That is what CNN's move—and a whole lot of other coverage we've seen—does: it suggests that this guy is just a candidate, like President Joe Biden or anyone else, who has views on how to fight inflation or whatever. It does not communicate that just last week, members of a right-wing paramilitary group that pledged allegiance to him were convicted of seditious conspiracy for their role in trying to stop Congress from confirming that he would leave power after losing the 2020 election. An attorney for one of the Proud Boys convicted, Joe Biggs, told the jury that they came to Washington on January 6 because their "commander-in-chief" told them to "be there, it's going to be wild."

"It was Donald Trump’s words," said a lawyer for another defendant, then-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio. "It was his motivation. It was his anger that caused what occurred on January 6th."

...The people who attempted to stop the peaceful transfer of power were carrying Trump flags, chanted their allegiance to him, and targeted his enemies—including Vice President Mike Pence. They were marching atop a mountain of bullshit delusion he constructed over many months. The whole thing was supercharged by Trump's deeper emotional appeal, that America itself was being stolen away from its rightful heirs, which was always more important than this or that conspiracy about voting machines. Parallel to the riot, Trump's White House aides and his congressional allies, including Ted Cruz, were working to stop the election certification long enough to establish a "commission" to engage in yet another phantasmagorical assessment of the election-fraud claims, with the ultimate goal of sending it back to Republican-controlled state legislatures. The state-level allies would then hand Trump their Electoral Votes and make him president despite the fact that the actual citizens of those states voted for Joe Biden.

In this, it was an attempt to seize power in contravention of the expressed will of the American people, and a grave assault on the basic foundations of the American republic...His attempt to stay in power after the American people removed him from office is not a policy dispute or a question of differing social values. It is completely incompatible with any attempt to seek an office of the public trust. He should be barred for life from any such office, which he would have been if the Republican Senate had done its duty and convicted him in his second impeachment trial.
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But legitimacy is about more than just technically qualifying to run. It's also about more than just having supporters. Trump has many, and according to a new poll from CBS News and YouGov, 75% of them say they're voting for him at least in part because they believe his story that he actually won the last election. Never mind all the failed lawsuits and the courts that found no admissible evidence, and never mind that he's never gotten more American citizens' votes than his opponent.
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As a body politic, we should take this opportunity—having passed on all the previous—to expel him. The political press plays a crucial role in how that body functions, and it is failing. Any news report on Trump's candidacy that fails to mention his attack on the American republic a couple of years ago is failing the American voter. If it doesn't always seem relevant, I invite you to imagine what would have happened if the scheme cooked up amongst Trump's aforementioned aides and allies had succeeded, and he'd stayed in power for another term despite losing the election. How do you think someone who's taken power in these circumstances would respond to the inevitable protests? Do you think that a man who seized power in extralegal fashion would serve out his second term and then leave? Where, in short, does the political press think all this was going? What do they think their lives and jobs might have looked like if he was successful? This is not a game."