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Republicans still keep touting that they are the Party of Lincoln. If one follows the trajectory of principles in that party, the Party of Lincoln was more progressive and more aligned with today's Democrats. Over time, the Republicans have become more like the old Southern Democrats in their view of economic and social issues. It sounds good to identify with Lincoln, but come on, it just doesn't match reality. —Read G., Utah
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Yesterday, the president posted a pre-recorded video in which he doubled down on his fantasy that the presidential election was "stolen" from him. It was 46 minutes of pure deception, with props this time, intended to show that mysterious "massive dumps" of votes in blue states must be fraudulent. Never mind that similar graphs of states he won would illustrate nearly identical dumps of votes from heavily Democratic areas in those otherwise red states. That doesn't suit his narrative, and his supporters wouldn't believe it anyhow. What if the rest of the world operated this way? What if your bankers decided, for example, that you should keep paying on a loan once you've paid it off, simply because they want you to. Loan documents? Payment receipts? Bah, they're just fake news. None of this is particularly surprising for Donald Trump, of course. He's always operated this way, manipulating reality whenever it doesn't serve his means. But what about Republicans? They were once firm believers (rightfully) in decentralized control, because hundreds of state officials acting in the public interest are a lot more accountable than a single executive acting in his own. Their silence—or worse, their enabling of this charade—is not only gutless; it is an appalling betrayal of principle. —Melissa Amour, Managing Editor
