DAVE ROSS

Ross: New impeachment trial will teach us the important lesson of ‘never again’

Jan 19, 2021, 6:54 AM | Updated: 10:04 am

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A group of pro-Trump protesters raise a giant America Flag on the West grounds of the Capitol Building on January 6. (Photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

(Photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

It’s been one of President Trump’s biggest unintended accomplishments – raising our awareness of America’s State Secretaries of State. Their job title is redundant, but their performance has been heroic. Especially those who happen to be Republican.

They impartially counted votes – as they’ve done for years – except this year their reward has been death threats. It happened to Georgia Republican Brad Raffensburger for daring to call out the President’s bogus numbers, and it’s happened to Republican Kim Wyman here in Washington – which isn’t even a swing state.

And so, she was on the air Monday saying we need to understand why it is that back in 2016, Democrats – who won the popular vote – accepted defeat, while in 2020, Republicans, who lost the popular vote, did not accept defeat.

“When you have the president of the United States for six months saying over and over the only reason for my loss is a rigged election, people started to believe it,” she told KIRO Radio’s Gee and Ursula Show. “And we’ve seen these tactics used in the 1930s — repeat a lie enough; it becomes the truth.”

Yes – she brought up the 1930s. The bad old days.

Now, with the curtain about to rise on a new impeachment trial, we will see if some of the courage at the state level will trickle up to the national level. Will we just try to forget what happened on January 6, or will we invoke one of the more constructive lessons from the bad old days:

Never again.

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