Truth Is Reasserting Itself Over Trump’s Lies
Too many Republican members of Congress still believe in conspiracies about the 2020 election, but voters seem to be moving on.
The former president and his chief of staff.
Photographer: Alex Wong/Getty Images North AmericaTwo reports came out last week — one grim, one promising — that together say something about the importance of context and truth in shaping political behavior and events.
The grim report was a series on the liberal website Talking Points Memo, which obtained a trove of more than 450 texts between 34 Republican members of Congress and Mark Meadows, who was White House chief of staff while former President Donald Trump was seeking to invalidate the 2020 election. The texts show a group effort, by people who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution, to locate American democracy’s weak points and exploit them to overthrow a democratically elected government.