January 10, 2021

toomey on today's Meet the Press

Please allow me, as a Pennsylvania voter who did, in fact, anticipate what has now happened, to share with the Senator some aspects of my regimen for critical thinking. First, I listened as President Trump proclaimed, repeatedly, on the campaign trail and often on national television, that “the only way we’re going to lose this election is if the election is rigged.” Second, I noticed that, again repeatedly, on national television and even in an official presidential debate, President Trump refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power. Considering these two circumstances simultaneously, the outcome of a Trump electoral loss was actually rather obvious -- and widely discussed by political commentators, again, repeatedly and on national television.

For the benefit of future decisions that the Senator might make, rationally, in the private sector, the logical structure is “2 + 2 = 4.”

As for the Senator’s characterization that the Democratic party is “radicalized”, I ask him to consider that in the months and years ahead, we will be relying on that party, led by centrist Joe Biden, and specifically on his centrist attorney general Merrick Garland, to hold the outgoing (and still de facto) leader of the Republican party accountable for tax evasion, tax fraud, bank fraud, perjury, obstruction of justice, election meddling, sedition, and incitement of insurrection.