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After Trump,“The Republican party needs to deal with a neofascism problem,” says fascism researcher @jasonintrator. “They’ve been antidemocratic but playing the democratic game for a long time… when you do that, you’re inviting people who say, ‘Let’s stop pretending.’”
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Reporter @igorbobic recorded that now-famous video of the Capitol police officer distracting the mob from the Senate’s open doors and offering himself as bait. “I had no idea how close we came to disaster” at the time, Bobic says. “He may have made the difference.”
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Much of what we know about the storming of Capitol Hill came from journalists who did their jobs in the face of danger. @igorbobic joins @mehdirhasan tonight to recount what he witnessed in the halls of Congress. Watch at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV or live: youtube.com/ttm0yheFSjQ
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Twitter and Facebook have blocked Trump from posting, and Amazon suspended Parler. But is big tech’s response too little too late? @karaswisher joins @mehdirhasan tonight at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV or live: youtube.com/ttm0yheFSjQ
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Some of the best journalism in recent years has been on the Trump admin. But are media outlets reflective enough about their coverage of the president’s rise? @KarenAttiah joins @mehdirhasan to discuss at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and live: youtube.com/ttm0yheFSjQ
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Members of Congress felt real terror this week, but @IlhanMN "lived with fear for my life for the last two years" thanks to Trump's rhetoric. There must be consequences: "It is important for us to remember that what we do today will matter for the rest of this nation's history."
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Capitol rioters planned for weeks. DC couldn’t even get the National Guard to respond promptly after they’d breached the halls of government. “This should never happen again,” @ltgrusselhonore says. “It’s a failure in DC, and it’s rotten at the top at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”
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“If you’re trying to persuade people that your party, your movement, isn’t just a bunch of far-right racists and neo-nazis, best not to quote Adolf Hitler.” And yet...
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“Hawley and Cruz have made it clear they are going to obfuscate and lie and cling to power like those rioters clinging to the wall outside the Capitol. Who will have the courage to remove them? And if they aren't removed, what does that say about the Republican party?”
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For the first time, a sitting president may be impeached for the second time.
The articles are ready for members of Congress to hold a vote. "Most of us are still here in DC waiting to act," says @IlhanMN. "I think Monday is a little too late for us to start this process."
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Will Donald Trump’s term end before he can be impeached? @Ilhan joins @mehdirhasan to discuss the draft articles at 7 p.m. ET. Tune in on @peacockTV or live: youtube.com/39qLU7_ki9w
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The threat of right-wing domestic terror will not end with Trump's presidency. Joining @mehdirhasan to discuss this & more are:
@CultExpert
@Ilhan
@monacharen
@ltgrusselhonore
Catch tonight’s @MehdiHasanShow at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV or live: youtube.com/39qLU7_ki9w
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.@TVietor08 wants all of Trump's enablers to be held accountable: "I do think it's incumbent on us to not let this go." DOJ, the House and Senate should look at everything, "whether it's kids in cages, whether it's the abuse of intelligence, etc. etc., over the past four years."
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“For much of the Trump presidency, Mike Pence was the sycophant-in-chief.” *Now* he’s mad? @mehdirhasan explores Pence’s sudden (reported) indignance at Donald Trump’s lawlessness… and his long record of complicity in it.
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“Charlottesville was a wakeup call” to the far right, says researcher @milleridriss. “We're now seeing the mainstreaming of anti-government extremism…and the legitimation of violence that goes along with it...They are framing this not just as martyrs but as heroes to a cause.”
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Watching the far right assault on the Capitol yesterday, ex-extremist @cpicciolini "was not shocked,” he says. “I knew that it's in their canon to want to take over the government.” To them, “This is the second American civil war that's happening, and they're preparing for it.”
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Why weren’t there more arrests yesterday? Because police were so outnumbered, says NBC’s @JuliaEAinsley: Federal law enforcement told her “They watched in horror yesterday. It was the darkest day at the U.S. Capitol since 9/11 and they had to sit on their hands for much of it.”
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.@RepRoKhanna says one alternative to impeachment is for Republicans to convince Trump to resign, a la Nixon: "It would save him the embarrassment of the impeachment and save the senators the votes, but they should make it clear that if he pushes the line, the votes are there."
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