Heather Cox Richardson 1/23

As always, I love her conclusion. For conservatives who supposedly love the Constitution, they seem to care only about how the insurrection will affect them personally.

After the riot of January 6, Trump advisor Hope Hicks exchanged horrified texts with Julie Radford, Ivanka Trump’s chief of staff, bemoaning that the Trump family was now “royally f*cked.” “In one day, he ended every future opportunity that doesn’t include speaking engagements at the local proud boy’s chapter,” Hicks wrote, “And all of us that didn’t have jobs lined up will be perpetually unemployed…. I’m so mad and upset. We all look like domestic terrorists now.” “Not being dramatic, but we are all f*cked,” she wrote.

Conservative Atlantic columnist Tom Nichols tweeted: “Their concern for the Constitution they swore to uphold is so touching.”

The next two years are going to be a waste of this country’s time.

The Republican plan for a 30% sales tax on everything is horrifying for a lot of reasons. The Republicans were just complaining about inflation. Now they want to add to that and burden people even more?