The great Trump whitewash is underway. Kevin McCarthy's big lie confirms it.

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Opinion | The great erasure is now underway. Kevin McCarthy’s big lie confirms it.
A massive GOP deception campaign is proceeding on multiple fronts. We can't let it succeed.
washingtonpost.com
2:57 PM · May 13, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/13/great-erasure-is-now-underway-kevin-mccarthys-big-lie-confirms-it/

After House Republicans purged Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming from her leadership role, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy further debased himself by serving up one of the biggest, most widely mocked lies of the year.

“I don’t think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election,” the California Republican insisted, miraculously refraining from bursting out in snickers. “I think that is all over with.”

This nonsense has been massacred by fact checks and widely mocked on Twitter. But it’s more than just a sad, sick joke: It shows that a careful and deliberate scheme is underway to erase very large truths about this moment, a project we cannot allow to succeed.

An important new piece in the New York Times helps demonstrate this. As it shows, many Republicans pushing voter suppression efforts across the country are not primarily justifying this with the full-blown lie that the election was stolen from Donald Trump.

Instead, they’re relying on a softer claim: These suppression measures are necessary because Republican voters lack “confidence” in the electoral system, because whatever the reality, they have reasonable grounds to believe the 2020 outcome might have been dubious.

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[Fullduplexxx]

1. Tell it to manchin and sinema

[Baitball Blogger]

2. They lied us into Iraq. And now they're lying us out of democracy.

Republicans are just nasty traitors.

[Peregrine Took]

3. Just like a cat covering up its "business" in the litter box. n/t

[Blue Owl]

4. Fuck the Great White Dope