“Our country has come too far to allow a defeated President to turn himself into a successful tyrant by upending our democratic institutions, fomenting violence, and…opening the door to those in our country whose hatred and bigotry threaten equality and justice for all Americans.” And: “We can never surrender to democracy’s enemies.”

—Jan 6 committee co-chair Bennie Thompson in the final report

@StevenBeschloss Mr Thompson’s foreword was truly an excellent and inspired piece.
@StevenBeschloss all the while the US promotes hate speech, defamation, libel, harassment and incitement and defend it as 'free speech' he will do worse and collapse your country. The thing you defend so vigorously will be the thing that topples you.
@StevenBeschloss “Defeated President”. Yeah, that needs an asterisk, followed by “disgraced twice-impeached one-term insurrectionist and ongoing national security threat who was referred by Congress for criminal prosecution”
@StevenBeschloss
We left the “Divine Right of Kings” behind in the 18th Century. We definitely don’t want to pick it back up.