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When Republicans complain about the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago... [1]

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Date: 2022-08-09

When dealing with Republican outrage over the FBI raid on Trump, there’s a simple response.

If he’s done nothing wrong, he has nothing to worry about.

There’s really no response to this they can make other than to double down on the performative hysteria. Because they are suffering from epistemic closure, they have become an authoritarian cult who can admit no wrong-doing by their leaders and can only exist in a world of alternative facts. The problem can never be them — it can only be someone or something else.

That need to deny reality to avoid accountability is why Republicans are so invested in the Big Lie — and are threatening a do-over of January 6. If they want to go that route, they should be forced openly say that’s what they are prepared to do, so no one can say they didn’t see it coming — especially before the midterms.

If the success of Biden and the Democrats is giving the mainstream media a hard time framing things according to the stock narratives (Democrats in disarray, etc. etc.), imagine their problem when Republicans openly threaten to go full rogue — they’re already headed in that direction and after January 6 it’s going to be just a bit harder for the press to pretend they are still a legitimate partner in American democracy.

Charles P. Pierce on the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago:

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