Jumping around the notices
Is there anyone I want to hear less from lecturing on overheated political rhetoric than this current iteration of elected made-themselves-high-profile Republican politicians? Josh Hawley. Yeah, sure. Throw out the fist as he walks out to the throngs on the nation’s capitol on January 6. I see the headline for Lindsey Graham on his Sunday morning junket. “Soul searching” time. Sure. Consult your statements from 2015 into 2016, consult the statements from right after January 6, compare to between those two points and after the second point, and heal thyself.
I stop at the 3 minute mark on of President Biden’s speech, wrapping my mind on how this will be viewed in partisan terms, a quick litany of flashpoints which skew heavily Republican and has as the central issue… in my mind the central issue on this election… January 6. It sits as the albatross, violent rhetoric leading in and leading out of it. And all we have besides is anyone restating Trump’s words with an upward inflection now in Josh Hawley’s line of… What are the liberal intellectual chattering classes teeming this … “Schosastic violence” or some such? Skip a few minutes further, the stumbling Biden has to stop himself before he says “make America Great Again”. He then speaks “getting out of our silos”, foreign actors pumping misinformation. I sense how this is going to read… Sliding out of a demand for both-siderism even as he really has no choice.
The convention of Republicans come tomorrow. They have Haley speaking now. There may be an interesting pivot, a sense that Trump has that he is this close. Marco Rubio just may be the meaningless vice presidential pick, someone to convince not liking Trump Republicans that if we can just hold on a little longer. Or maybe we will just let Haley fully embarrass herself further and call it a day.