There's a reason Cruz gifted right-wing media with a new bright shiny thing to chase this weekend, writes JoyceWhiteVance.
in 2022, “I think that Senator Cruz knew exactly what he was doing. I think that Senator Cruz is somebody who knows what the Constitution calls for, knows what his duties and obligations are, and was willing, frankly, to set that aside.”
Cruz, educated at Princeton and Harvard Law School, is the former solicitor general of Texas. After law school he clerked for both 4th Circuit Court Judge Michael Luttig and Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist.These efforts do a disservice to Americans at a time when our democratic institutions are still fragile.
These efforts do a disservice to Americans at a time when our democratic institutions are still fragile. Distraction from the facts is a strategy designed to facilitate the specter of a former president, whose rampant criminality continues to be celebrated in some quarters of the country, to return to the White House.
Memories fade quickly in an era of mass media consumption. The aftermath of 2020 could have been much worse. People lost their lives while, for 187 minutes, the 45th president of the United States reportedly threw ketchup and refused to calm his rioting supporters. The only logical conclusion is that he refused to quell the attack because he hoped it would succeed. He wanted to stay in office. He didn’t care about democracy.
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