House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy shared a chart that perfectly illustrates the long-held Republican hostility to democratic principles
Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images Donald Trump’s gross, overt authoritarianism has both accelerated and dramatized a much deeper hostility to democratic principles on the right that predates him. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy illustrates that tendency with a tweet denouncing impeachment as illegitimate:
To begin with, any elected president who is being impeached by definition has won the support of a large number of voters. There’s no way to impeach losing candidates. If you don’t think a president who won a lot of votes should be impeached, you don’t think impeachment belongs in the Constitution at all.
Trump and his supporters have relentlessly revised out of existence his national popular vote defeat and to inflate his narrow Electoral College win into a metaphysical expression of the national will. Their favorite propaganda device is to take advantage of the lower population density of Republican areas to create a visual image of red implying this majority.
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