- Kyle Cheney @ Politico: Back in power 5 years later, Trump has all but erased the stain of Jan. 6
In the years since the Capitol riot, Trump has learned it’s nearly impossible to punish a president who decides to test the limits of the Constitution.
- David Corn @ Mother Jones: The Erasure of January 6
Five years later, MAGA World is still engaging in its Orwellian rewriting of history.
- Hunter Walker @ Talking Points Memo: The Moment We Lost The Plot
The attack on the Capitol — and the response to it — left Trump’s violent authoritarian movement emboldened and able to continue onward.
- Isaac Schorr @ Mediaite: The 5 Most Unhinged Claims Made on Trump’s Jaw-Dropping New January 6 Website
President Donald Trump’s White House unveiled a new website on Tuesday dedicated to revising the historical record on the riot at the Capitol Building that took place five years ago to the day.
- GPAHE: Trump’s Year Of Making White Nationalism Great Again
As the sun sets on the first year of Donald Trump’s second presidential term, the mechanisms of American democracy are being drastically reassembled into a vehicle for the whims of the president and his racist, authoritarian agenda. Most worrisome has been the elevation of bona fide extremists into positions of power and the implantation of white nationalist ideas into formal policy.
- Spencer Sunshine @ The New Republic: The Far Right Is Quietly Building Power Under Trump
Extremist groups are some of the biggest winners of the second Trump administration.
- Kathryn Joyce @ In These Times: “Clever as Serpents”: How a Legal Group’s Anti-LGBTQ Policies Took Root in School Districts Across a State
In Pennsylvania, parents are challenging Independence Law Center policies while trying to avoid a legal case that could go to the conservative Supreme Court.