A thing that has been bothering me has been the question\u2014which I think is still open at this point, and will be decided at least somewhat by the outcome of the impeachment trial\u2014is whether the bulk of the Other Party will wind up believing that the 2020 election was stolen and, connectedly, that the Previous President did nothing wrong in inciting his followers to seek justice by any means necessary.\r\n
Right now, it seems to me that the mainstream stance in the national Republican Party is that the election was rife with fraud on a national level, but that it was inappropriate to do anything in particular about it, and that it\u2019s in poor taste to discuss it after the fact. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s a sustainable position\u2014or at least, I think that it\u2019s fairly easy for a faction within the Party to insist that mainstream of the Party stop dithering and declare that the election was stolen, or else that it wasn\u2019t.\r\n
But what\u2019s been bothering me is not so much next year or next cycle, but thirty-odd years from now. Perhaps people who don\u2019t remember the events will learn that the former Republican Party was taken over by delusional fanatics, and that is why the new Conservative Party, whatever it will be called, is only thirty years old. Or perhaps they will learn that the Republican Party was briefly in the thrall of an individually corrupt President, and that they parted ways with him after a failed autogolpe. Or perhaps they will learn that the Democratic Party managed to install a criminal President through rigging the pandemic election with fraudulent ballots.\r\n
I\u2019d like to think that the Truth Will Out\u2014but that\u2019s a funky proposition at the best of times, and certainly it would not be the first time the next generation was taught a bunch of lies about the last one.\r\n
Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,<\/I>
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