Donald Trump’s call to violence was never his backup plan. It wasn’t his Plan B, held in reserve in case he couldn’t win fair and square. Cheating was never Trump’s second choice. It was his plan from the very beginning, because it’s never enough to win by the rules. To Trump, you have to prove you’re better than those rules. Winning within the system is a sign of weakness; beating the system is the only thing that matters.
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Pundits have focused a lot of attention on how much Republicans have done to protect Donald Trump, regardless of how outrageous or destructive his behavior has been. But less has been said about the things Republicans have learned from Trump about how to engage in that behavior themselves. Here are four ways they’ve done just that.
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Censure was created as an alternative to expulsion that’s designed admonish an elected official for ethical misconduct or violations of a legislature’s rules. And that’s exactly how Democrats in favor of such a move would have used it to rebuke Trump. If sicking a violent mob on the Capitol isn’t an ethical violation, it’s hard to say what is. That’s not political, but the way Republicans have been using censure is.
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