To get their positions, these men and women have to be willing to declare, publicly if necessary, that Donald Trump won the 2020 election and that the insurrectionary riot of January 6, 2021, was not instigated by a president seeking to overturn that election. These are not merely matters that might be disputed, or on which reasonable people can disagree, or of which citizens in the public square can claim ignorance.
They are lies that require exceptional brazenness, or exceptional cowardice, or a break with reality to assert. Lying itself is a common thing. There are the routine social lies that all of us experience and tell.
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