This is how you do it, Democrats.
Even with lots of good stuff going on — President Joe Biden reversing a ton of Donald Trump's executive orders with EOs of his own, for instance — a few disconcerting warning signs are cropping up. Mitch McConnell thinking he can still dictate the rules of the Senate is one. The Supreme Court tossing the emoluments case against Trump is another. It's unclear what forces will be arrayed against this and other outrages.
However, other folks who share our values seem to have figured it out. The recap in today's New York Times about progressive groups mobilizing to fight Benedict Donald's post-election assault on democracy was a deeply satisfying read. And the Virginia Senate, now in Democratic hands, is handling gun-nut State Senator Amanda Chase exactly right.
Chase faces censure in Richmond for her strong support of the traitors and insurrectionists who breached and looted the US Capitol on Wednesday, January 6. Senate Democrats were willing to refrain from punishing her if she would apologize. (Chase was at Trump's rally on the Ellipse that day, but says she did not march to the Capitol. She saw the rioters on her hotel room TV and called them "patriots who love their country." Which is what set this whole thing off.)
Chase agreed to the deal — only to give one of those highly qualified "if I have offended any of you" dodges, thinking her colleagues would let it go. She thought wrong.
"Her apology fell far short of what I had discussed with her three times," said the State Senator sponsoring the censure resolution. Her statement was "not even close," declared the Majority Leader.
The censure will go forward. (The Face Thing has already banned her.) Now all Democrats have to do is find the right candidate to send Amanda Chase's pistol-packing butt back to oblivion. We cats PURR.
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