I believe according to public opinion polling that we saw on January 6th was the tip of an iceberg. More and more Americans are becoming detached from reality. More and more Americans are becoming prone to violence in a climate in which many elected officials feel emboldened to engage in overheated extremist rhetoric.
Jeh Johnson expresses concern about the increasing detachment from reality and the rise of violence due to extremist rhetoric among elected officials.
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This could be wild. You could have the major candidate in the party, an indicted criminal defendant, out on bail.
An argument could be made that if there’s an indictable case against the former president, yet we fail to prosecute him, we may be doing more harm to our democracy than if we forbear.
We as a democracy can no longer say that we always have peaceful transfers of power in January after an election year. We found out a year and a half ago that our democracy really is quite fragile.
I see a case being developed of the criminal charges that Danny laid out, plus giving aid and comfort to an insurrection, what happened on January 6th was the very definition of an insurrection.
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