The incoming Republican House majority plans to focus on crime. Curiously, however, the focus of their efforts is on protecting criminals and justifying their offenses. jonathanchait writes on the House Republicans' planned January 6 investigation
is already setting the party’s pro-crime agenda. “In a closed-door meeting of Republicans on Monday,” reports Hulse, “right-wing lawmakers including Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia extracted a promise that their leaders would investigate Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Justice Department for their treatment of defendants jailed in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
The upshot of all these theories is that the insurrectionists are martyrs. The party’s right wing has lamented their treatment by the Justice Department, which is allegedly ignoring thecriminals to persecute patriotic Trump supporters who simply had legitimate questions about how Joe Biden could have possibly received 74 million votes.
The House has no power to drop charges against the insurrectionists. It does, however, have the ability to inscribe into party doctrine the Trumpist interpretation of January 6. And that narrative — that maybe some bad things happened that day but the Biden Justice Department is the true villain — is one that will invite more political violence from the right.
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